Psalms 115:1
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
2Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
Cross References
Joshua 7:9For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?
Psalms 74:22Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.
Psalms 89:1Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.
Psalms 138:2I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.
Ezekiel 20:14And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.
Ezekiel 36:32Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 115:1
Many ancient translations join this psalm to that which goes next before it, the Septuagint particularly, and the vulgar Latin; but it is, in the Hebrew, a distinct psalm. In it we are taught to give glory, I. To God, and not to ourselves, ver. 1 . II. To God, and not to idols, ver. 2-8 . We must give glory to God, 1. By trusting in him, and in his promise and blessing, ver. 9-15 . 2. By blessing him, ver. 16-18 . Some think this psalm was penned upon occasion of some great distress and trouble that the church of… Read the whole commentary →