Psalm 118:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ The Lord is God, Who has shown and given us light [He has illuminated us with grace, freedom, and joy]. Decorate the festival with leafy boughs and bind the sacrifices to be offered with thick cords [all over the priest's court, right up] to the horns of the altar.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Jehovah is God, and he hath given us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

Common English Bible

²⁷ The LORD is God! He has shined a light on us! So lead the festival offering with ropes all the way to the horns of the altar.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Instruct me in the way of your justifications, and I will be trained in your wonders.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

Psalm 118:27 Cross References

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.

1 Kings 18:39

When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord indeed is God; the Lord indeed is God.”

1 Chronicles 29:21

On the next day they offered sacrifices and burnt offerings to the Lord, a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their libations, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,

Esther 8:16

For the Jews there was light and gladness, joy and honor.

Psalm 18:28

It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.

Psalm 37:6

He will make your vindication shine like the light and the justice of your cause like the noonday.

Exodus 27:2

You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

Exodus 38:2

He made horns for it on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.

Micah 7:9

I must bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he takes my side and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see his vindication.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

Hebrews 13:15

Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.