Psalms 115:7

1 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 5:4; Acts 17:29; Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 46:7; Psalms 18:9; Psalms 22:16; Psalms 25:15; Psalms 55:14; Psalms 8:6; Psalms 81:13; Psalms 85:13; Psalms 86:11; Psalms 10:12; Psalms 115:4; Psalms 17:14; Psalms 8:6

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have mouths ... - They are shaped like people, but have none of the attributes of intelligent beings.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

They have (e) hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. (e) He shows what great vanity...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

speak . make. sound.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Neither speak they— Or, Neither breathe they.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They have hands, but they h...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(4-8) This passage cannot compare with the magnificent irony of Isaiah 44:9-20 , but there is still a noticeable vein of sarcasm running through it,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Neither speak they. — The Hebrew implies not only the want of articulate speech, but of utterance at all.
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

They have hands, but they handle not ,.... So as to feel any thing that is put into their hands; they cannot make use of their hands to stretch them...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. Ver. 7. They have hands, but the...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 god...
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

Speak, or mutter , or make a noise , as this word signifies, Isaiah 10:14 . They are so far from speaking with their throat and other instrume...
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

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 idola...
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

they have hands, but they handle not, or, "their hands are there, yet they feel not"; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through...

⁷ They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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 115:7