Psalms, Chapter 115
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View Psalms 115 in the note window.115:1 Not a unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name
give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.
(a) Because God promised to deliver them, not for their
sakes, but for his Name, (Isa 48:11), therefore
they ground their prayer on this promise.
115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, b Where [is] now their
God?
(b) When the wicked see that God does not always
accomplish his promise as they imagined, they think
there is no God.
115:3 But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever
he hath c pleased.
(c) No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the
impediments to serve his will.
115:4 Their idols [are] d silver and gold, the work of men's
hands.
(d) Seeing that neither the matter nor the form can
commend their idols it follows that there is no reason
that they should be esteemed.
115:7 They have e hands, but they handle not: feet have they,
but they walk not: neither speak they through their
throat.
(e) He shows what great vanity it is to ask help from them
who not only have no help in them, but lack sense and
reason.
115:8 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.
115:10 g O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their
help and their shield.
(g) For they were appointed by God as instructors and
teachers of faith and religion for others to follow.
115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us]; he
h will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the
house of Aaron.
(h) That is, he will continue his graces toward his
people.
115:15 Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which i made heaven and
earth.
(i) And therefore still governs and continues all things
in it.
115:16 The k heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but
the earth hath he given to the children of men.
(k) And they declare enough his sufficiency so that the
world serves him nothing, but to show his fatherly
care toward men.
115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that l go
down into silence.
(l) Though the dead set forth God's glory, yet he means
here, that they praise him not in his Church and
congregation.
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