Psalms 118:2

“Let Israel now say, that his mercy [endureth] for ever.] Let such who have had an experience of it acknowledge and declare it to others; not only believe in it with their hearts, and privately give thanks for it, but with the mouth make confession of it to the glory of divine grace; not only literal Israel, whom the Lord brought out of Egypt, led and fed in the wilderness, and settled in the land of Canaan; and to whom the law and the services of God, the covenants and promises, word and ordinances, belonged; and who now were so happy under the government of such a king as David; but also the spiritual Israel of God, the whole Israel of God, Jews and Gentiles, under the Gospel dispensation;…”

“Let Israel now say ... - The Hebrew people; the people of God. They have now, in my case, a new illustration of the mercy of God which ought to animate them, and to encourage their hearts. Compare Psalms 115:9. return to 'Top of Page'”

“118:2-4 Israel . . . Aaron’s descendants . . . all who fear the Lord: These three groups represent the whole of the covenant community (cp. 115:9-11; 135:19-20).”

“Psa 115:9-11, Psa 135:19, Psa 135:20, Psa 145:10, Psa 147:19, Psa 147:20; Gal 6:16; Heb 13:15; Pe1 2:9, Pe1 2:10 Psalms 118:3”