Psalms 115:3

1 Chronicles 16:25; Daniel 4:35; Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 46:10; Matthew 6:9; Psalms 123:1; Psalms 2:4; Psalms 68:4; Psalms 135:6; Romans 9:19

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
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

3 Surely our God is in heaven. (366) The faithful, with holy boldness, encourage themselves the more to prayer. Our prayers, we know, are w...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. He hath done whatsover he hath pleased - There was too much cause for his a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 no...
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

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 wande...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 i...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Absurdity of Idolatry. 1 Not unto us, O L ORD , not unto us, but...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 b...
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

But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased. The sovereignty of God Sovereignty signifies, in general, supremacy, th...
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

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 al...

³ But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:3

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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

Psalms 115:3