Psalms 118

Psalms 118:12

They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns.

Like as the bees fly angrily about the man that stirs their hive, and threat their stings against him, so do mine enemies against me; but they shall soon be stilled and mastered: they send forth a great flame of menaces and oppositions, but it shall be, like a fire of thorns, soon out.

Psalms 118:22

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

The mutinous people have spitefully rejected the government of their Messiah, and of David his type and predecessor; but now, behold, by the holy and wise ordination of God, either and both of them are appointed for the chief stay of his people; so as the whole fabric of the Church is coupled together, and resteth upon the foundations of that Christ, whom they have wickedly refused.

Psalms 118:27

God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light; bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

God is the Lord, which hath comforted us in our extremities; bring ye therefore abundance of sacrifices, before him; and tie them with cords, ready for their oblation, so thick, as they can stand each by other, till they come up to the very horns of the altar.