Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 115:8
Every one that trusteth... —
“Who moulds in gold or stone a sacred face
Makes not the god; but he who asks his grace.”
Every one that trusteth... —
“Who moulds in gold or stone a sacred face
Makes not the god; but he who asks his grace.”
THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE UNTO THEM - Stupid; senseless; irrational. See the notes at Isaiah 44:9. SO IS EVERYONE THAT TRUSTETH IN THEM - People who do this show that they are destitute of all the...
Psalms 115 Who Their God is? _ 1. Israel's God (Psalms 115:1)_ 2. In Contrast with Idols (Psalms 115:4) 3. O Israel Trust in the Lord ...
CXV. THE BLINDNESS OF IDOLATRY AND THE VIRTUE OF UTTER TRUST IN YAHWEH. Psalms 115:2 f. An invisible god was unintelligible to the average heathen; he believed that the god was specially present in t...
SO IS. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And [so is]". TRUSTETH. confldeth. Hebrew. _batah_. App-69....
THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE UNTO THEM— Are in this respect as stupid and blockish as those idols themselves, inasmuch as they do not make a regular use of those faculties which God hath given them, i...
PSALMS 115 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Not for Her Own Glory but for His, Israel moves herself to trust in Jehovah to Shew his Superiority over Idols. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 115:1-3, Introductory appeal...
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE UNTO THEM. first laid down this great principle, "Thou shalt not desire the silver or gol...
In LXX 114, 115 are one Ps., while 116 is divided into two. Apparently Psalms 115 was written to be sung antiphonally: cp. the responses in Psalms 115:9; Psalms 115:11—the first eight and the last thr...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD PSALMS 115 Jesus said, "Pray like this: Our Father, you are in *heaven. Your name is special. You are king (over everyone). What you...
כְּ֭מֹוהֶם יִהְי֣וּ עֹשֵׂיהֶ֑ם כֹּ֭ל אֲשֶׁר ־בֹּטֵ֣חַ...
Psalms 115:1 ISRAEL is in straits from heathen enemies, and cries to Jehovah to vindicate His own Name by delivering it. Strengthened by faith, which has been stung into action by taunts aimed at both...
POWERLESS IDOLS; OUR POWERFUL GOD Psalms 115:1 Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms 115:1 by the whole congregation in unison, while the sacrifice was being offered;...
This third psalm in the Hallel is born of passion for the glory of the name of Jehovah. That is its opening note, and all that follows must be explained thereby. The singer's distress is heard in the...
They that make them are (f) like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them. (f) As much without sense as blocks and stones....
or Hebrew Psalm cxvi. Ver. 17. _Praise. Or thanksgiving, Psalm xxvi. 6., and Leviticus vii. 12. (Calmet) --- Lord. There is but one, as there is but one faith. Without the latter, it is in vain to cal...
Idols and idolaters are upon a par. But, alas! is not every man an idolater by nature? And even when regenerated, how often do I detect my poor wandering heart going after its vanities! Lord, give me...
8_They who make them shall be like unto them. _Many are of opinion that this is an imprecation, and hence translate the future tense in the optative mood, _may they become like unto them _But it will...
Psalms 115 gives the true and full ground of this deliverance as seen in the heart of faith. It is not that they, but that Jehovah may be praised, specially in His mercy, and then His faithfulness to...
THEY THAT MAKE THEM ARE LIKE UNTO THEM,.... As stupid as the matter of which they are made; as sottish and as senseless as the idols themselves, see Isaiah 44:9. Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it as a...
They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them. Ver. 8. _They that make them are like unto them_] Blind and blockish, _Vervecum in patria crassoque sub aere nati; _ g...
_They that make them_ And trust in, or worship them as gods, _are like unto them_ Are as ignorant and stupid, and void of all sense and reason, as those images themselves, inasmuch as they do not make...
VINDICATION OF GOD'S GLORY OVER AGAINST THE IDOLS. This psalm may have been a cry of Israel for the assistance of the Lord in the face of invading enemies, who placed their confidence in their heathe...
They that make them are like unto them, devoid of proper understanding; SO IS EVERYONE, whether maker or worshiper, THAT TRUSTETH IN THEM. Idolatry lowers not only the religious and moral, but also th...
1-8 Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, a...
THEY THAT MAKE THEM; or, _they that observe or worship them_. For the psalmist's quarrel was not so much with those few artists who formed the images, as with all the adorers of them. And the word her...
Psalms 115:8 make H6213 (H8802) trusts H982 (H8802) in them Psalms 135:18;...
This is one of the Psalms, which were sung by the Jews at the feast of the Passover. It is highly probable that they were sung by our Lord on that memorable night when he instituted the sacred feast w...
Psalms 115:1. _Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the...
CONTENTS: Indignation against the makers and worshippers of idols and exhortation to trust in God. CHARACTERS: God, house of Aaron, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The creatures of men's vain imaginations and...
Whether this psalm was written after some victory, or after the removal of any calamity which had caused the heathen to boast, is not certain. But blessings of this kind, though they justly demand pra...
_Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory._ GENUINE RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS I. A consciousness of God’s greatness leading to a contempt for all idols. 1. The majesty of God. ...
_Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands._ BABYLONIAN IDOLATRY Babylon was a land in which life was overshadowed by a vast idolatry. What this idolatry was, we may see, in part, by a...
_They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them._ FALSE RELIGIONS A false religion has all the outward signs of importance. A false religion could not live if it showed...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 115:1. This is a hymn urging God’s people to trust and worship the Lord alone. He alone is worthy of their deepest loyalty. There is always the temptation to turn to the god...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 115:4 This satirical passage exposes the folly of worshiping IDOLS (compare Psalms 135:15;...
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship uncertain. Has been ascribed to the immediate post _exilie_ psalmists, and to the poets of the time of the Maccabees. 2. Characteristics. Allusion to or quotation...
EXPOSITION A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is one of danger (Psalms 115:2), but, at the same time, of confi...
Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to thy name give glory (Psalms 115:1), Here again we have the same idea. Don't reverend me. "Not unto us, Lord, not unto us, but to Thy name." Let there be ascri...
Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Isaiah 44:9; Jeremiah 10:8; Jonah 2:8;...
Are like them — As void of all sense or reason as their images....