Psalm 118:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷I will not die. I will live.
    I will live to tell about all the Eternal has done.
¹⁸The Eternal has taught me many lessons;
    He has been strict and severe,
    but even in His discipline, He has not allowed me to die.

Early Christians found in the words of this psalm a wonderful way of describing the significance of Jesus. He was the rejected stone whom God made the cornerstone of a brand-new temple (verses 22–24).

¹⁹Open wide to me the gates of justice
so that I may walk through them
and offer praise and worship to the Eternal.

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