“ Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? ”
Wherefore should the heathen say - The nations; they who worshipped idols, and who claimed that those idols were true gods. Why should we, thy people, be so left, so forsaken, so afflicted, as to...
Wherefore should the heathen say, (b) Where [is] now their God? (b) When the wicked see that God does not always accomplish his promise as they imagined, they think there is no God.
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...
heathen . nations. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
2 Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God? They here express how God would maintain his glory in the preservation of the Church, which, if he permitted to be destroyed, would expo...
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? Wherefore should the heathen say - This appears to refer to a time in which the Israelites had suffered some sad reverses, so as to be brou...
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? - from Psalms 79:10 . The sneer of the pagan at the seeming inability of I...
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...
As the enemy will triumph over the afflictions of the Lord's people, we would pray, O Lord, that they may have no occasion so to do in our being cast down under trials. May we have always grace to se...
Wherefore should the Heathen say ,.... The nations about Israel, the nations of the world; the Gentiles in any age; the Papists in ours, sometimes called the Heathen, Psalms 10:16 . The church expo...
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God? Ver. 2. Wherefore should the heathen say ] Why should they thus be suffered or occasioned to blaspheme thee, and twit us with our religi...
Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us By the repetition of these words the psalmist humbly expresses his sense of the unworthiness of the Jews to receive the signal blessings with which the Lord had fav...
The Absurdity of Idolatry. 1 Not unto us, O L ORD , not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for...
Wherefore should the heathen say? why dost thou suffer them, or give them any colour or occasion, to say or think so, by conniving at their wickedness, and by giving thy people into their hands? W...
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...
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...
2 Kings 19:10-19 ; Deuteronomy 32:26 ; Deuteronomy 32:27 ; Exodus 32:12 ; Joel 2:17 ; Numbers 14:15 ; Numbers 14:16 ; Psalms 42:10 ; Psalms 42:3 ; Psalms 79:10