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THEY HAVE MOUTHS ... - They are shaped like people, but have none of
the attributes of intelligent beings....
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Psalms 115
Who Their God is?
_ 1. Israel's God (Psalms 115:1)_
2. In Contrast with Idols (Psalms 115:4)
3. O Israel Trust in the Lord ...
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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
heathen; he believed that the god was specially present in t...
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SPEAK. make. sound....
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NEITHER SPEAK THEY— Or, _Neither breathe they._...
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PSALMS 115
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Not for Her Own Glory but for His, Israel moves herself to trust in
Jehovah to Shew his Superiority over Idols.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 115:1-3, Introductory appeal...
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They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk
not: neither speak they through their throat.
THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY HANDLE NOT; FEET HAVE THEY, BUT THEY WALK
NOT; NEITHER S...
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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 115:9; Psalms 115:11—the first eight and the last thr...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD
PSALMS 115
Jesus said, "Pray like this: Our Father, you are in *heaven. Your
name is special. You are king (over everyone). What you...
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NEITHER SPEAK THEY. — The Hebrew implies not only the want of
articulate speech, but of utterance at all....
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(4-8) This passage cannot compare with the magnificent irony of Isaiah
44:9, but there is still a noticeable vein of sarcasm running through
it, visible even more in the original than in the English....
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יְדֵיהֶ֤ם ׀ וְ לֹ֬א יְמִישׁ֗וּן
רַ֭גְלֵיהֶם וְ...
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Psalms 115:1
ISRAEL is in straits from heathen enemies, and cries to Jehovah to
vindicate His own Name by delivering it. Strengthened by faith, which
has been stung into action by taunts aimed at both...
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POWERLESS IDOLS; OUR POWERFUL GOD
Psalms 115:1
Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms
115:1 by the whole congregation in unison, while the sacrifice was
being offered;...
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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 explained thereby. The singer's distress is heard in the...
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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 h...
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Idols and idolaters are upon a par. But, alas! is not every man an
idolater by nature? And even when regenerated, how often do I detect
my poor wandering heart going after its vanities! Lord, give me...
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Psalms 115 gives the true and full ground of this deliverance as seen
in the heart of faith. It is not that they, but that Jehovah may be
praised, specially in His mercy, and then His faithfulness to...
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THEY HAVE HANDS, BUT THEY HANDLE NOT,.... So as to feel any thing that
is put into their hands; they cannot make use of their hands to
stretch them out, and receive anything from their worshippers; no...
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They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk
not: neither speak they through their throat.
Ver. 7. _They have hands, but they handle not_] Curious and artificial
(for art is Na...
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_Their idols_ The objects of their idolatrous worship, _are silver and
gold_ That is, images made of silver and gold, dug out of the earth.
Their gods are so far from being the makers of all things, o...
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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 enemies, who placed their confidence in
their heathe...
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they have hands, but they handle not, or, "their hands are there, yet
they feel not"; FEET HAVE THEY, BUT THEY WALK NOT; NEITHER SPEAK THEY
THROUGH THEIR THROAT, they cannot even mutter, utter an arti...
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1-8 Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or
in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace;
and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, a...
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SPEAK, or _mutter_, or _make a noise_, as this word signifies, ISAIAH
10:14. They are so far from speaking with their throat and other
instruments of speech as men do, that they cannot make such an
in...
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Psalms 115:7 hands H3027 handle H4184 (H8686) Feet H7272 walk H1980
(H8762) mutter H1897 (H8799) throat...
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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 memorable night when he instituted the sacred feast w...
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Psalms 115:1. _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 heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the...
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CONTENTS: Indignation against the makers and worshippers of idols and
exhortation to trust in God.
CHARACTERS: God, house of Aaron, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: The creatures of men's vain imaginations and...
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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 blessings of this kind, though they justly demand pra...
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_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 to a contempt for all
idols.
1. The majesty of God.
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_Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands._
BABYLONIAN IDOLATRY
Babylon was a land in which life was overshadowed by a vast idolatry.
What this idolatry was, we may see, in part, by a...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 115:1. This is a hymn urging God’s
people to trust and worship the Lord alone. He alone is worthy of
their deepest loyalty. There is always the temptation to turn to the
god...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 115:4 This satirical passage exposes the folly
of worshiping IDOLS (compare Psalms 135:15;...
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INTRODUCTION
1. Date and authorship uncertain. Has been ascribed to the immediate
post _exilie_ psalmists, and to the poets of the time of the
Maccabees.
2. Characteristics. Allusion to or quotation...
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EXPOSITION
A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a
leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is
one of danger (Psalms 115:2), but, at the same time, of confi...
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Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to thy name give glory (Psalms
115:1),
Here again we have the same idea. Don't reverend me. "Not unto us,
Lord, not unto us, but to Thy name." Let there be ascri...
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1 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 5:4; Acts 17:29; Habakkuk 2:18; Isaiah 46:7;...