Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Isaiah 44:9-20; Jeremiah 10:8; Jonah 2:8; Psalms 135:18
They that make them are like unto them - Stupid; senseless; irrational. See the notes at Isaiah 44:9-20 . So is everyone that trusteth in the...
They that make them are (f) like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them. (f) As much without sense as blocks and stones.
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...
So is. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And [so is]". trusteth . confldeth. Hebrew. batah . App-69.
8 They who make them shall be like unto them. Many are of opinion that this is an imprecation, and hence translate the future tense in the o...
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
They that make them are like unto them— Are in this respect as stupid and blockish as those idols themselves, inasmuch as they do not make a regula...
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. They that make them are like unto them. Deuteronomy 7:25-26...
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...
(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,...
Every one that trusteth... — “Who moulds in gold or stone a sacred face Makes not the god; but he who asks his grace.”
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,...
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...
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...
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...
They that make them are like unto them ,.... As stupid as the matter of which they are made; as sottish and as senseless as the idols themselves, se...
They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them. Ver. 8. They that make them are like unto them ] Blind and blocki...
They that make them And trust in, or worship them as gods, are like unto them Are as ignorant and stupid, and void of all sense and reason, as th...
The Absurdity of Idolatry. 1 Not unto us, O L ORD , not unto us, but...
They that make them; or, they that observe or worship them . For the psalmist's quarrel was not so much with those few artists who formed the imag...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. False religions A false religion has all the outward signs of im...
EXPOSITION A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is one...
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...
They that make them are like unto them, devoid of proper understanding; so is everyone, whether maker or worshiper, that trusteth in them. Idolat...
Are like them — As void of all sense or reason as their images.
8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.