Psalms 115:8

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
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

So is. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And [so is]". trusteth . confldeth. Hebrew. batah . App-69.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
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

Every one that trusteth... — “Who moulds in gold or stone a sacred face Makes not the god; but he who asks his grace.”
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 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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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...
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

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...
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 Biblical Illustrator

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...
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 that make them are like unto them, devoid of proper understanding; so is everyone, whether maker or worshiper, that trusteth in them. Idolat...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 2:18 ; Habakkuk 2:19 ; Isaiah 44:9-20 ; Jeremiah 10:8 ; Jonah 2:8 ; Psalms 135:18
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary 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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 115:8