Psalm 118 is a hymn of thanksgiving for the wonderful deliverance that God gave His people and as such it is a fitting conclusion to the "Hallel Psalms".
Serena's mysterious ways bedazzle most mortals.She exudes an air of melancholy, which is intoxicating to Elven kind looking to the past for deliverance.
His message then was a salute to the men and women at home and abroad who had sacrificed so much in pursuit of what he rightly called a 'great deliverance'.
When she came into their presence, they at once fell on their knees, to thank her; but she exclaimed, It is God that we have to thank for your wonderful deliverance!
So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.
This was a more sober heartfelt joy, a deep-souled feeling of thanksgiving, and the churches were filled as ministers reverently thanked God for the deliverance of the state.
For a few heady months in 2018, his ascendance seemed to many as though it were divinely ordained, the nation's collective deliverance from years of sacrifice and suffering.