Psalm 118:27 {117:27}
Good News Translation
The LORD is God; he has been good to us. With branches in your hands, start the festival and march around the altar.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is our God, and he has given us light! Start the celebration! March with palm branches all the way to the altar.

New American Bible
The LORD is God and has enlightened us. Join in procession with leafy branches up to the horns of the altar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.

God

1 Kings 18:21,39 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word. . . .

shewed

Psalm 18:28 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 37:6 And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Esther 8:16 But to the Jews, a new light seemed to rise, joy, honour, and dancing.

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen.

Isaiah 60:1 Arise, be enlightened, O Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Micah 7:9 I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice.

Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

bind

Psalm 51:18,19 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up. . . .

1 Kings 8:63,64 And Solomon slew victims of peace offerings, which he sacrificed to the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep so the king, and all the children of Israel, dedicated the temple of the Lord. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:21 And they sacrificed victims to the Lord: and they offered holocausts the next day, a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their libations, and with every thing prescribed most abundantly for all Israel.

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

the horns

Exodus 27:2 And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

Exodus 38:2 The horns whereof went out from the corners, and he overlaid it with plates of brass.

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
26Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. 27The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar.28Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.…
Cross References
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Exodus 27:2
And there shall be horns at the four corners of the same: and thou shalt cover it with brass.

1 Kings 18:39
And when all the people saw this, they fell on their faces, and they said: The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.

Esther 8:16
But to the Jews, a new light seemed to rise, joy, honour, and dancing.

Psalm 18:28
For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 27:1
The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?

Ezekiel 43:15
And the Ariel itself was four cubits: and from the Ariel upward were four horns.

Psalm 118:26
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