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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 counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading notes that the phrase locating the blessing at the Temple specifies where the words are spoken, inside the sanctuary where the liturgy is performed, rather than setting a deadline for a messiah's arrival. On this view, deriving a temporal requirement (before 70 CE) from a spatial reference misreads a liturgical direction as a chronological prophecy. It also observes that the same verse of the psalm is advanced as more than one distinct messianic prophecy, the identical acclamation being applied to separate proposed fulfillments and attached here to adjacent verses in Matthew 21. The added condition that the messiah must come while the Temple stands is, on this reading, not present in the psalm's own wording.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

One reading takes Psalm 118:26 to imply that the messiah must appear while the Temple still stands, since the blessing is pronounced from within the Temple. Coordinated with Malachi 3:1's expectation that the Lord would come to his Temple, the reading treats Jesus' Temple activity (Matthew 21:12-15) as occurring within the window before the Temple's destruction in 70 CE. Supporters take the Temple's fall within a generation of Jesus' ministry as confirmation that the messianic visitation occurred on schedule. The spatial reference is thus read as marking a genuine chronological requirement that Jesus satisfied.

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 21:12-15 Echo

    Matthew 21:12-15 does not quote the psalm; only the children's cry of Hosanna (21:15) echoes the acclamation of Psalm 118:25-26.