Psalms 115:15

Who therefore can bless you indeed in spite of all your enemies curses and oppositions; and not of an impotent idol, that can do you neither good nor hurt.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye are blessed of the Lord - Blessed in your present comforts and mercies; blessed in his promises in regard to the time to come; blessed in the...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which (i) made heaven and earth. (i) And therefore still governs and continues all things in it.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 heath...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. Ye are blessed of Jehovah In the preceding verse the prophet had given them the hope of uninterrupted happiness, arising from God’s infi...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth - alluding to Melchizedek's bl...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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,...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 explai...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

All blessings are in the person of the Lord Jesus; and they are secured to his people in his finished salvation. So ran the original charter of grace...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

You are blessed of the Lord ,.... The Arabic version reads it, "we are blessed"; with temporal and with spiritual blessings; being the beloved of th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. Ver. 15. Ye are blessed of the Lord, &c. ] And therefore shall be blessed, as Isaac...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord shall increase you more and more In number, power, and in all temporal and spiritual blessings, notwithstanding the efforts of your many e...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Confidence in God. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the L ORD : he is thei...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship uncertain. Has been ascribed to the immediate post exilie psalmists, and to the poets of the time of the Macca...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 hea...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 me...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 bl...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 t...
The Biblical Illustrator

Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth. The Lord blessing His saints I. A blessing belonging to a peculiar people, 1. A peop...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is one...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ye are blessed of the Lord; richly supplied with the gifts of His goodness and mercy, which made heaven and earth, the worth and the greatness of H...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 3:9 ; Ephesians 1:3 ; Ephesians 1:4 ; Genesis 1:1 ; Genesis 14:19 ; Genesis 32:26-29 ; Psalms 3:8 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 96:5

¹⁵ Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 115:15