Psalm 118:19
New International Version
Open for me the gates of the righteous; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD.

New Living Translation
Open for me the gates where the righteous enter, and I will go in and thank the LORD.

English Standard Version
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.

King James Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

New King James Version
Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
Open the gates of righteousness to me; I will enter through them, I will give thanks to the LORD.

NASB 1995
Open to me the gates of righteousness; I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the LORD.

NASB 1977
Open to me the gates of righteousness; I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness; I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to Yah.

Amplified Bible
Open to me the [temple] gates of righteousness; I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
Open the gates of righteousness for me; I will enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Open the gates of righteousness for me; I will enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

American Standard Version
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Open to me the gates of righteousness and I shall enter them and praise LORD JEHOVAH.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Open the gates of justice! I will enter and tell the LORD how thankful I am.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord.

English Revised Version
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Open the gates of righteousness for me. I will go through them [and] give thanks to the LORD.

Good News Translation
Open to me the gates of the Temple; I will go in and give thanks to the LORD!

International Standard Version
Open for me the righteous gates so I may enter through them to give thanks to the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Open gates of righteousness to me, | I enter into them—I thank YAH.

Majority Standard Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.

New American Bible
Open the gates of righteousness; I will enter and thank the LORD.

NET Bible
Open for me the gates of the just king's temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them and praise the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter them, and I will praise the LORD:

World English Bible
Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

Young's Literal Translation
Open ye to me gates of righteousness, I enter into them -- I thank Jah.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
18The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death. 19Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD. 20This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.…

Cross References
Exodus 15:2
The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.

Isaiah 26:2
Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter--one that remains faithful.


Treasury of Scripture

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

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Isaiah 26:2
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Revelation 22:14
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

I will go

Psalm 9:13,14
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: …

Psalm 66:13-15
I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, …

Psalm 95:2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

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Psalm 118
1. An exhortation to praise God for his mercy
5. The psalmist by his experience shows how good it is to trust in God
19. Under the type of the psalmist the coming of Christ in his kingdom is expressed














(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.

Verse 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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Open
פִּתְחוּ־ (piṯ·ḥū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

to me
לִ֥י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

the gates
שַׁעֲרֵי־ (ša·‘ă·rê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate

of righteousness;
צֶ֑דֶק (ṣe·ḏeq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

I will enter
אָֽבֹא־ (’ā·ḇō-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and give thanks
אוֹדֶ֥ה (’ō·w·ḏeh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's 3034: To throw, at, away, to revere, worship, to bemoan

to the LORD.
יָֽהּ׃ (yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3050: LORD -- the name of the God of Israel


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