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Psalms 118:26

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Psalms 118:26

Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

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I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.

Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will exalt you.

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The fulfillment reading takes Psalm 118:26 as a messianic acclamation realized when the Jerusalem crowd greets Jesus at his entry into the city (Matthew 21:9). On this view Jesus deliberately stages the entry, arranging the donkey and descending the Mount of Olives, so that the pilgrims' shout identifies him as the awaited one who comes in the Lord's name. Supporters observe that Jesus later invokes the same verse in an eschatological key (Matthew 23:39), giving it forward-looking weight. The crowd's selection of this psalm at that moment is read as recognition of a messianic arrival rather than incidental festival language.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading identifies Psalm 118:26 as a processional blessing pronounced over pilgrims arriving at the Temple for festivals, part of Psalm 118's thanksgiving liturgy with its gate and festal-branch imagery (vv. 19-20, 27). On this view the greeting was addressed to every worshipper entering the precincts, a reusable liturgical formula rather than a prediction of a single future individual. When the crowd applies it during the entry, they are using familiar festival language for a specific occasion, which is how liturgy ordinarily functions. The verse's reuse in the Gospel scene is therefore read as reflecting the evangelist's framing rather than a latent prophecy within the psalm.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Matthew 21:9 Direct quotation

    Matthew 21:9 places the wording of Psalm 118:26 verbatim on the crowd's lips.