Psalms 115:1
Not for our sake, O Lord, not for our sake, but unto thy name give glory, for the sake of thy kindness, for the sake of thy truth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2Wherefore should the nations say, Where now is their God?
Cross References
Joshua 7:9And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, they will environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt thou do for thy great name?
Psalms 74:22Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember thy defiance from the worthless fool all the day.
Psalms 89:1“A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrachite.” (89:2) The kindnesses of the Lord will I for ever sing: from generation to generation will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.
Psalms 138:2I will bow myself down before thy holy temple, and I will thank thy name for thy kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified above all thy name thy promise.
Ezekiel 20:14But I acted for the sake of my name, so as not to profane it before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them forth.
Ezekiel 36:32Not for your sake do I this, saith the Lord Eternal, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded because of your 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 →