2 For mighty to us hath been His kindness, And the truth of Jehovah `is' to the age. Praise ye Jah!
Enter ye His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise, Give ye thanks to Him, bless ye His Name. For good `is' Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!
O Jehovah, my God `art' Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.
For, as the height of the heavens `is' above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him.
Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,
He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed -- to the age.'
Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers, and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'
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Commentary on Psalms 117 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 117
Ps 117:1, 2. This may be regarded as a doxology, suitable to be appended to any Psalm of similar character, and prophetical of the prevalence of God's grace in the world, in which aspect Paul quotes it (Ro 15:11; compare Ps 47:2; 66:8).
2. is great toward us—literally, "prevailed over" or "protected us."