Psalms 115:4-5 - Compare All Versions

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Our God is in heaven doing whatever he wants to do. Their gods are metal and wood, handmade in a basement shop: Carved mouths that can’t talk, painted eyes that can’t see, Tin ears that can’t hear, molded noses that can’t smell, Hands that can’t grasp, feet that can’t walk or run, throats that never utter a sound. Those who make them have become just like them, have become just like the gods they trust.

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

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see

Their idols are made of silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak. They have eyes, but they cannot see.

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

But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; Eyes they have, but they do not see

The idols [of the nations] are silver and gold, The work of man’s hands. They have mouths, but they cannot speak; They have eyes, but they cannot see

Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands. They have mouths but cannot speak, and eyes but cannot see.

The unbelievers worship what they make— their wealth and their work. They idolize what they own and what they make with their hands, but their things can’t talk to them or answer their prayers. Their possessions will never satisfy. Their futile faith in dead idols and dead works can never bring life or meaning to their souls. Blind men can only create blind things. Those deaf to God can only make a deaf image. Dead men can only create dead idols. And everyone who trusts in these powerless, dead things will be just like what they worship—powerless and dead.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.