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Psalm 117:1-2:
Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! For His merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 118:14-29:
The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation
is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of the Lord does valiantly. The right hand of the Lord is exalted;
the right hand of the Lord does valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. The Lord has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness;
I will go through them, and I will praise the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter. I will praise You, for You have answered me, and have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. God is the Lord, and He has given us light; bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.



The first Psalm 117 is the shortest in the Bible and appears to be located in the middle of the entire Bible.
But this psalm is not only special because of this data, it is also a psalm that, despite being composed of only two verses, speaks one of the most important truths and revelations of God's plan for humanity. The writer of this psalm was prophesying in the first verse that all nations will worship the Lord.
This is very relevant, especially since the people of Israel were aware of being God's chosen people among all the nations of the world.
This topic is very important in order to understand the whole plan of God with humanity.
The people of Israel knew that they were called by God and chosen in a special way. The Lord continually reminded them through the prophets that God had chosen them, not because they were a great and powerful nation, but because he chose them out of love, even though they were small and weak people. God did it because He wanted to magnify them and bless them above all other nations.
Still we notice that the psalmist saw the other nations, the Gentiles, the non-Jews worshiping God. The apostle Paul used this psalm to teach that salvation and the privilege of entering the presence of God is not only for the Jews, but that God also calls everyone who invokes the name of Jesus, regardless of their nationality or descent. .
We can also read what the apostle John wrote in his gospel about this moment when the door of salvation was opened to the whole world at the moment when Jesus the Messiah came to this world, in John 1:12-13: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”

The 118 is a psalm that when you read it you will realize that it is a psalm full of explosions of joy with declarations of gratitude to the Lord.
The psalmist confesses that he went through a difficult time because God made him go through the test to correct him, and he thought that death would come but then God gave him life, made him wiser when he went through the test and gave him a new opportunity to adore Him.
This psalm is very important because it reveals the arrival of the Messiah to the world, He is represented by the main stone of a...