Psalms 118:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

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

World English Bible · Public Domain

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וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּ

yâdâh

H3034

“and · to throw · you”

Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 114× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 29:35

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root; used only as denominative from H3027

TWOT: 847

to throw, shoot, cast - (Qal) to shoot (arrows) - (Piel) to cast, cast down, throw down - (Hiphil) - to give thanks, laud, praise - to confess, confess (the name of God) - (Hithpael) - to confess (sin) - to give thanks

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Wisdom: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
2 nouns
1 pronoun

Verb forms

וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּ Hiphil · Imperfect
אֲרוֹמְמֶֽךָּ Polel · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 35 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Psalms 118:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Isaiah 25:1 Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
Psalms 146:2 While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
Exodus 15:2 Yah is my strength and song, He has become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."
Isaiah 25:9 It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Psalms 145:1 I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

You’re reading Greek Psalm 117 (Hebrew Psalm 118). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Psalms 118:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֵלִ֣י אַתָּ֣ה וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּ אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י אֲרוֹמְמֶֽךָּ

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

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Greek Psalm 117:28 Septuagint · lemma form

θεός ἐγώ εἰμί σύ καί ἐκὁμολογέω σύ θεός ἐγώ εἰμί σύ καί ὑψόω σύ ἐκὁμολογέω σύ ὅτι ἐπιἀκούω ἐγώ καί γίγνομαι ἐγώ εἰς σωτηρία

You are my God, and I will give you thanks: you are my God, and I will exalt you. I will give thanks to you, for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Psalms 118:28 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Psa 118:28 Thou [art] my God, and I will praise thee: [thou art] my God, I will exalt thee.

Ver. 28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee] The people are taught to say thus; and the Greek, Arabic, and Latin translations repeat here, Psa 118:21, "I will praise thee, for thou hast heard me; and art become my salvation." People can never be sufficiently thankful for their salvation by Christ. It is their duty, and should be their desire.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

Psa 118:28-29. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee, &c. — In these verses the psalmist subjoins his own thankful acknowledgments of divine goodness, in which he calls upon others to join with him, and give thanks unto the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever — Thus he concludes the Psalm as he began it, Psa 118:1, for God’s glory must be the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, of all our addresses to him.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

J. A. Alexander on Psalms

Joseph Addison Alexander

28. (Psa 118:28) My God art thou, and I will thank thee; my God, I will exalt thee. The Hebrew words for God are not the same. The second is that commonlyso rendered, while the first is that used in Psa 118:27, and denoting the divine omnipotence.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

28. I will praise thee] Rather, I will give thanks unto thee, as in Psa_118:29. The verse is another echo of Exo_15:2.

thou art my God] So the LXX. The Heb. text has, O my God. The word for ‘God’ in the preceding line is El, here it is Elôhîm. At the end of the verse the LXX repeats Psa_118:21.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou art my God, and I will praise thee - This is the language of the author of the psalm - his solemn profession before the sanctuary and the altar; his response to the priesthood. In Psa 118:27, they had declared that “Jehovah alone was God;” to this he now replies, that he acknowledges, it; he recognizes him as the true God, and as his God; he comes to praise him; and he professes his purpose always to exalt him as his God.

Thou art my God, I will exalt thee - Repeating the solemn declaration that Yahweh alone was the God whom he worshipped, and that it was his purpose always to magnify his name.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Treasury of David

Charles H. Spurgeon

Ver. 28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee, my mighty God who hath done this mighty and marvellous thing. Thou shalt be mine, and all the praise my soul is capable of shall be poured forth at thy feet.

Thou art my God, I will exalt thee. Thou hast exalted me, and as far as my praises can do it, I will exalt thy name. Jesus is magnified, and he magnifies the Father according to his prayer, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee." God hath given us grace and promised us glory, and we are constrained to ascribe all grace to him, and all the glory of it also. The repetition indicates a double determination, and sets forth the firmness of the resolution, the heartiness of the affection, the intensity of the gratitude. Our Lord Jesus himself saith, "I will praise thee"; and well may each one of us, humbly and with confidence in divine grace, add, on his own account, the same declaration, "I will praise thee." However others may blaspheme thee, I will exalt thee; however dull and cold I may sometimes feel myself, yet will I rouse up my nature, and determine that as long as I have any being that being shall be spent to thy praise. For ever thou art my God, and for ever I will give thee thanks.

Ver. 28. God. The original for "God" gives force to this passage: Them art my "El" The Mighty One; therefore will I praise thee: my "Eloah" a varied form with substantially the same sense, "and I will extol thee" lift thee high in glory and honour. Henry Cowles.

Ver. 28. This "extolling the Lord" will accomplish one of the great ends of praise, viz., his exaltation. It is true that God both can and will exalt himself, but it is at once the duty and the privilege of his people to exalt him. His name should be borne up and magnified by them; the glory of that name is now, as it were, committed to them: what use are we making of the opportunity and the privilege? Philip Bennet Power.

Ver. 28.

1. The gladdest fact in all the world: "Thou art my God."

2. The fittest spirit in which to enjoy it: "Praise thee"

Ver. 28.

1. The effect of Christ being sacrificed for us: "Thou art my God."

2. The effect of our being offered as an acceptable sacrifice to him: "I will praise thee, I will exalt thee." Or,

(a) The covenant blessing: "Thou art my

God."

(b) The covenant obligation: "I will praise thee." G.R.

Psalms 118:29*

Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. This is the acknowledgment made by each and all, and probably repeated many times, while the sacrifice is being consumed upon the altar.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâdâh (“to throw”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to throw” (yâdâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Isaiah 25:1 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וְאוֹדֶ֑ךָּ» is Hiphil Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.