Psalms 115
115
Psalm 115
The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God
1 #
Ps 96.8; Ezek 36.32 # 115.1 Psalms 114—115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.
2 #
Ps 42.3
Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
3 #
Ps 103.19; 135.6; Dan 4.35 Our God is in the heavens;
he does whatever he pleases.
4 #
Deut 4.28; Ps 135.15–17; Jer 10.3ff Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
5They have mouths, but they do not speak;
they have eyes, but they do not see.
6They have ears, but they do not hear;
they have noses, but they do not smell.
7They have hands, but they do not feel;
they have feet, but they do not walk;
they make no sound in their throats.
8 #
Ps 135.18
Those who make them are like them;
so are all who trust in them.
9 #
Ps 33.20; 118.2–4 O Israel, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
10O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
11 #
Ps 135.20
You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
12The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
13he will bless those who fear the Lord,
both small and great.
14 #
Deut 1.11
May the Lord give you increase,
both you and your children.
15 #
Gen 1.1; 14.19; Ps 96.5 May you be blessed by the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
16 #
Ps 8.6; 89.11 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to human beings.
17 #
Ps 6.5; 31.17 The dead do not praise the Lord,
nor do any who go down into silence.
18 #
Ps 113.2
But we will bless the Lord
from this time on and forevermore.
Praise the Lord!
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