What Does Psalm 118:15 Mean?

The voice of a ringing cry and of deliverance is in the tents of the aligned; the right hand of the LORD makes strength.

Psalm 118:15 · SDV

Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.

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King James Version

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

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 my song, and he has become my deliverance. This is my God, and I will make him a dwelling; my father's God, and I will lift him high.

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

Look, God is my deliverance. I will lean my full weight and not tremble, for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, and he has become my deliverance.

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

And they cry out with a loud voice, saying, Deliverance to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!

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

THE THREAD

The LORD is my strength and song, and becomes my deliverance.

Psalm 118:14 · SDV

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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