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Psalm 118:23

This is the LORD’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

21I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
22The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
23This is the LORD’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
24This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
25Save us now, we beg you, LORD! LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.
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The rejected stone becomes the cornerstone, and the people name YHWH as the one responsible before speaking of their wonder.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 24:50Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t speak to you bad or good.Laban and Bethuel attribute the matter before them to the LORD, just as the psalm attributes the stone’s changed place to him.
Job 5:9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;Both passages describe God’s deeds as marvelous; Job also speaks of their number and the limits of human understanding.
Ephesians 1:19–22and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his mightBoth passages direct attention to God’s work, with Ephesians stressing the greatness of his power toward those who believe.
Acts 13:41‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”Both passages join God’s work with wonder, though Acts addresses scoffers with a warning while the psalm voices praise.
Acts 4:13Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had …Both describe people marveling: at the LORD’s doing in the psalm, and at Peter and John’s boldness in Acts.
Mark 12:11This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?”Mark repeats the psalm’s declaration that this comes from the Lord and is marvelous in the eyes of those who see it.
Psalm 31:21Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.Both psalms praise the LORD for something marvelous, with Psalm 31 naming his loving kindness shown in a strong city.
Zechariah 8:6The LORD of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says the LORD of …Both speak of what is marvelous in human eyes; Zechariah also distinguishes the remnant’s perspective from the LORD’s.
Acts 5:31–32God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.The psalm credits the LORD with the stone’s raised standing; Acts credits God with exalting Jesus as Prince and Savior.
Acts 3:14–15But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,The psalm’s surrounding lines describe a rejected stone; Acts names the rejection of the Holy and Righteous One.
John 21:7That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself …Both express recognition of the Lord, though the psalm names his doing and John records a disciple recognizing Jesus.
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Encouragement

Human rejection did not settle the stone’s place. YHWH made it the cornerstone, and the people’s wonder rests on what he has done.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).