Psalms 115:9

O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O Israel - The body of the Jewish people.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Israel, trust thou in the Lord - This exhortation is founded in a great measure on what had been just said in regard to idols. They had no powe...
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

Israel. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "house of Israel". See notes on Genesis 32:28 ; Genesis 43:6 ; Genesis 46:27 ;...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9 O Israel! trust thou in Jehovah The prophet again resumes the doctrinal point, that the genuine worshippers of God have no cause to fear t...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 688 TRUST IN GOD RECOMMENDED Psalms 115:9-13 . O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

O Israel, trust thou in the Lord— Israel trusteth in the Lord; and so in the following verses the verbs should be read in the indicative; as we f...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield - (...
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

O Israel. — There is consummate art in this sudden change of address. It is like the pointed application of some general truth in a sermon. It is p...
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

Observe the gracious call of God to the several orders of his people. First, to Israel; next, to the priests of Israel; thirdly, to all in whose hear...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O Israel, trust thou in the Lord ,.... Or, "the house of Israel hath trusted in the Lord": so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Eth...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield. Ver. 9. O Israel, trust thou in the Lord ] Whatever others do, Joshua 24:1...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O Israel, trust in the Lord Do not you follow the example of these infatuated idolaters, but trust in, worship, and serve the Lord only. He is the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Confidence in God. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the L ORD : he is thei...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

O Israel, do not thou follow the example of these brutish idolaters, but serve the Lord only. Their help; who trust in God, as he now required. O...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

trust Also; ( Psalms 115:11 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
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 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

O Israel, trust thou in the Lord, the admonition coming in all the more strongly after the contrast just presented ; He is their Help and their Shiel...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:29 ; Ephesians 1:12 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Jeremiah 17:17 ; Jeremiah 17:18 ; Proverbs 30:5 ; Psalms 125:1 ; Psalms 130:7 ; Psalms 14...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Their — Who trust in him.

⁹ O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 115:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

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

Scofield Reference Notes

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 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 115:9