Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 115:3
But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath (c) pleased.
(c) No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the impediments to serve his will.
But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath (c) pleased.
(c) No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the impediments to serve his will.
Verse Psalms 115:3. _HE HATH DONE WHATSOVER HE HATH PLEASED._] There was too much cause for his abandoning us to our enemies; yet he still lives and rules in heaven and in earth....
BUT OUR GOD IS IN THE HEAVENS - The Septuagint adds, “and in the earth.” This is not, however, in the Hebrew. The idea is, Our God really exists. He is the true God. He reigns in heaven. His plans are...
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...
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...
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. BUT OUR GOD IS IN THE HEAVENS. The "our" is emphatic. The pagan do not know the infinite distance that separates OUR God from...
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...
וֵֽ אלֹהֵ֥ינוּ בַ † שָּׁמָ֑יִם כֹּ֭ל אֲשֶׁר...
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...
or Hebrew Psalm cxvi. Ver. 12. _To me. I have deserved chastisement; how, therefore, shall I express my gratitude for God's innumerable benefits? (Worthington)_...
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...
3_Surely our God is in heaven. _(366) The faithful, with holy boldness, encourage themselves the more to prayer. Our prayers, we know, are worthless when we are agitated with doubts. Had that blasphem...
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...
BUT OUR GOD IS IN THE HEAVENS,.... His habitation is in the heavens, as the Targum; the Septuagint and Arabic versions add, "and in earth": he is in both, and fills both with his presence; and cannot...
But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Ver. 3. _But our God is in the heavens_] Where your _terricula_ country, your fearful idols never were; like as one, being as...
_But our God_ He whom, notwithstanding their reproaches, we are not ashamed to own for our God, _is in the heavens_ Although he has no visible shape, nor is present with us in a corporeal form, nor ha...
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...
But our God is in the heavens, invisible indeed, but nevertheless ruling the world; HE HATH DONE WHATSOEVER HE HATH PLEASED, for He alone is the almighty God, in contrast with the utter impotence of t...
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...
OUR GOD; whom, notwithstanding your reproaches, we are not ashamed to own for our God. IS IN THE HEAVENS; although he have no visible shape nor bodily presence with us here upon earth, as your idols h...
Psalms 115:3 God H430 heaven H8064 does H6213 (H8804) pleases H2654 (H8804) But our - Psalms 2:4
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. ...
_But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased._ THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD Sovereignty signifies, in general, supremacy, the possession of supreme power, a right to govern with...
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 115:3 The confession that God DOES ALL THAT HE PLEASES answers the Gentiles’ taunt (v. Psalms 115:2). In...
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...
1 Chronicles 16:25; Daniel 4:35; Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 46:10;...