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Psalm 118:24 KJV
Psalms · chapter 118 · verse 24
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 118:24 · King James Version
What Psalm 118:24 means
This is the day usually gets read as any morning you wake up. In the psalm it's a particular day; the verses just before it are about the stone the builders refused becoming the head stone. The rejoicing is a decision made out loud: we will rejoice. Gladness follows the choice.
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Psalm 118:24 in context
22The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
23This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
24This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
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Key words (Strong's)
- rejoicegîylproperly, to spin roundH1523 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- madeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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We have here an illustrious prophecy of the humiliation and exaltation of our Lord Jesus, his sufferings, and the glory that should follow. Peter thus applies it directly to the chief priests and scribes, and none of them could charge him with misapplying it, Act 4:11. Now observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-29