Psalms 118:25-26

Context

118:25 Please Lord, deliver!

Please Lord, grant us success!¹

118:26 May the one who comes in the name of the Lord² be blessed!

We will pronounce blessings on you³ in the Lord’s temple.⁴

[118:25] ¹sn A petition for deliverance and success seems odd in a psalm thanking God for deliverance, but it is not unique (see Ps 9:19-20). The people ask God to continue to intervene for them as he has for the psalmist.

[118:26] ²sn The people refer here to the psalmist, who enters the Lord’s temple to thank him publicly (see vv. 19-21), as the one who comes in the name of the Lord.

[118:26] ³tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine plural, but the final mem (ם) is probably dittographic (note the mem [מ] at the beginning of the following form) or enclitic, in which case the suffix may be taken as second masculine singular, referring to the psalmist.

[118:26] ⁴tn Heb “from the house of the Lord.”