Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. Drawn from Deuteronomy 4:28. The Hebrew for "idols" expresses literally 'pains,' expressing the sorrows which they bring upon their worshippers х `ªtsabeeyhem (H6091)]: cf. Psalms 16:4. Our psalm is the standard one concerning idols in contrast with Yahweh; as Isaiah 44:9-20, and Jeremiah 10:3-16 are the leading passages in the prophets on the same subject. The more intelligent pagan regarded idols as only symbols of their gods. But the Psalmist views the thing in the reality, not according to the conceptions of the idolaters, which were corrupt fancies: the pagan gods had no existence beyond the images (Psalms 95:3; Psalms 96:5).