“ Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. ”
Ye that fear the Lord ... - All the people that reverence God; all his true worshippers.
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...
11. Ye who fear Jehovah! He does not speak of strangers, as some erroneously suppose, as if this were a prediction respecting the calling of the Gentiles. Connecting them with the children o...
DISCOURSE: 688 TRUST IN GOD RECOMMENDED Psalms 115:9-13 . O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shi...
Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Ye that fear the Lord - All real penitents, and sincere believers, trust to the Lord, in the almighty, omniscient, and i...
Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord. Reverential and filial fear of the Lord is close akin to trust in Him. T...
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 115:9-10 ; Psalms 115:11 —the first eight and th...
Psalms 115:1-18 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...
Powerless Idols; Our Powerful God Psalms 115:1-18 Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms 115:1-8 by the whole congregation in unison, while the sacrifice was b...
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...
Observe the gracious call of God to the several orders of his people. First, to Israel; next, to the priests of Israel; thirdly, to all in whose heart the fear of the Lord is; perhaps taking in both...
Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord ,.... Which is said not to distinguish true saints from hypocrites, in Israel or in Aaron's house; rather to describe such who belonged to neither: but, as A...
Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield. Ver. 11. Ye that fear the Lord ] Peregrini ex omni populo, saith Aben Ezra, devout persons out of every nation dwel...
O Israel, trust in the Lord Do not you follow the example of these infatuated idolaters, but trust in, worship, and serve the Lord only. He is their help and their shield The shield to defend, an...
Confidence in God. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the L ORD : he is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, tr...
All and every one of you who worship the true God, not only Aaronites and Israelites, but even Gentile proselytes, who are said to come to trust under the wings of the God of Israel , Ruth 2:12 ....
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 quotati...
fear Also ( Psalms 115:13 ); ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
Psalms 115:1-19 . 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 i...
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 pr...
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 G...
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...
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 hea...
Acts 10:35 ; Proverbs 14:26 ; Proverbs 30:5 ; Psalms 118:4 ; Psalms 147:11 ; Psalms 33:18 ; Revelation 19:5
Ye that fear — All of you who worship the true God, not only Israelites, but even Gentile proselytes.