Psalms 115:8
Those who make them will be like them;yes, everyone who trusts in them.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
In Context
9Israel, trust in the Lord!He is their help and their shield.
Cross References
Isaiah 44:9Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain.The things that they delight in will not profit.Their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Habakkuk 2:18"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute 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 →