Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 118:20 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 20. 20This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 118:20: Within “Thanksgiving procession and rejected stone: Gates, rejected stone, and the day of rescue,” the line “This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter” supplies one distinct parallel claim, image, address, or response.
Read It With
- Psalms 118:1–29
- Psalms 118:19–24
Read Psalm 118:20 with 118:19–24 and the whole of Psalm 118. Psalm 118:20 adds the distinct poetic line “This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter” within “Gates, rejected stone, and the day of rescue,” where its parallel neighbors determine emphasis and scope. The thanksgiving-liturgy form, parallel lines, voice, and Book V placement keep the selected line from becoming a contextless slogan.
Why It Needs Context
The line “This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 118:19–24; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “Thanksgiving procession and rejected stone: Gates, rejected stone, and the day of rescue” must supply the claim before teaching or application.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Psalms 118:19–24 — Thanksgiving procession and rejected stone: Gates, rejected stone, and the day of rescueSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 118:19–24, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 118:19–24
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