Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Psalm 118 belongs to Psalms 113 to 118, the six psalms of praise known as the Hallel, sung at Passover and other Hebrew feasts and on paschal occasions as the usual Passover song. It was sung as part of the hymn at the last Passover supper as Jesus and the disciples went out to the Mount of Olives and to Gethsemane. He sang it just before His betrayal, the agony of Gethsemane, the darkness of the cross and His coming suffering, though He knew those sufferings lay before Him.
The verse describes being thrust at sorely by the enemy to cause a fall, being pressed toward a fall, but being helped by the Lord. In its context the Lord is praised as strength and song and as having become salvation. It expresses thanksgiving for God's loving-kindness and for Jehovah's saving goodness.
The verse is prophetic of Christ, belonging to a prophetic word-picture in which David foresaw and felt Christ's struggles with the enemy as pressed toward a fall but helped by the Lord. In its setting the psalm supplements the truth of the Son of God's exceeding majesty far above all creatures as Himself the Creator and of His humiliation in becoming one with the human family in order to save them. Jesus sang it in faith and trust in the Father who is too wise to err and too good to be unkind. Praise to Him from whom all blessings flow glorifies Him and brings greater blessings.
Psalm 118 belongs to Psalms 113 to 118, the six psalms of praise known as the Hallel, sung at Passover and other Hebrew feasts and on paschal occasions as the usual Passover song. It was sung as part of the hymn at the last Passover supper as Jesus and the disciples went out to the Mount of Olives and to Gethsemane. He sang it just before His betrayal, the agony of Gethsemane, the darkness of the cross and His coming suffering, though He knew those sufferings lay before Him.
The verse describes being thrust at sorely by the enemy to cause a fall, being pressed toward a fall, but being helped by the Lord. In its context the Lord is praised as strength and song and as having become salvation. It expresses thanksgiving for God's loving-kindness and for Jehovah's saving goodness.
The verse is prophetic of Christ, belonging to a prophetic word-picture in which David foresaw and felt Christ's struggles with the enemy as pressed toward a fall but helped by the Lord. In its setting the psalm supplements the truth of the Son of God's exceeding majesty far above all creatures as Himself the Creator and of His humiliation in becoming one with the human family in order to save them. Jesus sang it in faith and trust in the Father who is too wise to err and too good to be unkind. Praise to Him from whom all blessings flow glorifies Him and brings greater blessings.