Psalms Chapter 118 verse 19 Holy Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto Jehovah.
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Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.
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Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them; Jah will I praise.
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Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
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Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
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Open ye to me gates of righteousness, I enter into them -- I thank Jah.
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Psalms 118 : 19 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Open to me the gates of righteousness. The great gate of the temple being now reached, admission to the interior is requested. The gates are called "the gates of righteousness," (1) as gates which none but the righteous ought to enter (see the next verse); and (2) as gates through which access is gained to the sanctuary of him who alone is truly righteous, and the source of all righteousness in others. I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord. Praise could be given to God any where; but it was most appropriately offered "in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem" (Psalm 116:19).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) The gates of righteousness.--This is explained by the next verse as the gate of the Temple, where the righteous, i.e., Israel alone, entered. There does not seem the least reason for taking the words here in any but this literal sense, though doubtless they are capable of endless spiritual applications. We must imagine a procession chanting the triumphal song as in Psalms 24, and summoning the gates to open on its approach.
