Psalms 115:8

Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

In Context

7They have hands, but they handle not. They have feet, but they walk not, nor do they speak through their throat.

9O Israel, trust thou in LORD. He is their help and their shield.

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Cross References

Isaiah 44:9Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become brutish, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image. For his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Habakkuk 2:18What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Matthew Henry on Psalms 115:2-9

The Absurdity of Idolatry. 1 Not unto us, O Lord , not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. 2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not:… Read the whole commentary →

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