Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 115:4
Their idols [are] (d) silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
(d) Seeing that neither the matter nor the form can commend their idols it follows that there is no reason that they should be esteemed.
Their idols [are] (d) silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
(d) Seeing that neither the matter nor the form can commend their idols it follows that there is no reason that they should be esteemed.
Verse Psalms 115:4. _THEIR IDOLS_ ARE _SILVER, C._] They are metal, stone, and wood. They are generally made in the form of man, but can neither see, hear, smell, feel, walk, nor speak. How brutish t...
THEIR IDOLS - Their gods - the gods which they worship, as contrasted with the God whom we adore. The design of this description Psalms 115:4 is to show the utter vanity of trusting in such gods, and...
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...
SILVER AND GOLD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is made from them. Compare Psalms 135:15. WORK. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read plural, "works". MEN'S...
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...
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD, THE WORK OF MEN'S HANDS. THEY HAVE MOUTHS, BUT THEY SPEAK NOT; EYES HAVE THEY, BUT THEY SEE NOT. Drawn fro...
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...
(4-8) This passage cannot compare with the magnificent irony of Isaiah 44:9, but there is still a noticeable vein of sarcasm running through it, visible even more in the original than in the English....
עֲֽ֭צַבֵּיהֶם כֶּ֣סֶף וְ זָהָ֑ב מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗ה יְדֵ֣י...
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. 13. Chalice. I will submit to any afflictions, (St. Augustine) seeing they procure such an ample reward. I will unite my sufferings with those of Jesus Christ, (Haydock) and...
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...
4_Their idols _This contrast is introduced for the purpose of confirming the faith of the godly, by which they repose upon God alone; because, excepting him, all that the minds of men imagine of divin...
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...
THEIR IDOLS ARE SILVER AND GOLD,.... The idols of the Gentiles; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. The gods they serve and worship are not in the heavens; but the...
Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands. Ver. 4. _Their idols are silver and gold_] Take them at the best, they are no better; and what is silver and gold but the guts and garbage...
_Their idols_ The objects of their idolatrous worship, _are silver and gold_ That is, images made of silver and gold, dug out of the earth. Their gods are so far from being the makers of all things, o...
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...
Their idols are silver and gold, carved images, manufactured out of precious metals, indeed, but without real existence, THE WORK OF MEN'S HANDS, constructed, poured, carved, by weak and puny human be...
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...
Thus glorious and powerful is our God, O ye heathens, of whom you so boldly ask who and where he is; but as for your gods or idols, they have no power nor worth in them but what is taken from their ma...
Psalms 115:4 idols H6091 silver H3701 gold H2091 work H4639 mens H120 hands H3027 Their idols -...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Acts 19:26; Acts 19:35;...