What Does Psalm 118:15 Mean in the King James?

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

Psalm 118:15 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Here, deliverance is not silent rescue: it rings out as rejoicing while the LORD’s hand acts with force.

THE MEANING

Rejoicing and deliverance are audible in the homes of those aligned with God. The LORD’s right hand acts with strength, holding celebration and decisive action in the same scene. Deliverance is something heard among the people, not only something privately felt.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Deliverance is not necessarily private or quiet; here it fills the homes with rejoicing.

THE ROOT

יְשׁוּעָה

yeshuah

GROWS FROM

ישע

To deliver, bringing one out of constriction into spaciousness.

The word translated “salvation” carries the movement of being brought out into room. Here that deliverance takes audible form as rejoicing, while the LORD’s hand acts with might.

ALSO GROWS

yasha: To deliver or bring out.

יָשַׁע

This verb reveals the movement inside deliverance: a way out of what constricts.

moshia: Deliverer; one who brings out.

מוֹשִׁיעַ

This branch names the one enacting the deliverance that the tents now voice.

yeshuah: Deliverance.

יְשׁוּעָה

This is the word in the verse: the people’s rejoicing gives deliverance a voice.

THE PATTERN

Deliverance from God becomes a shared voice of praise, not a silent abstraction.

The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 15:2 · KJVStrength, song, and salvation meet in one declaration, as deliverance here is heard as rejoicing.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 12:2 · KJVSalvation is voiced together with trust, strength, and song, echoing the praise heard in the tents.

And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

Revelation 7:10 · KJVA loud shared cry gives salvation a public voice, as it does in this verse.

THE THREAD

The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

Psalm 118:14 · KJV

The word translated “salvation” in both verses comes from the same Hebrew root, ⁨ישע⁩ (yasha), deliver. Verse 14 names the LORD as strength, song, and deliverance; verse 15 opens that song into the people’s rejoicing and shows the hand acting with might.

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