Psalms 115:1
I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.
Cross References
Joshua 7:9The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?
Psalms 74:22Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
Psalms 89:1Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.
Psalms 138:2On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
Ezekiel 20:14But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.
Ezekiel 36:32It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O house 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 →