Psalm 115:4
Verse 4 of 18. The 115th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
2Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
5They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
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Psalm 115:4 in the World English Bible
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Matthew Henry on Psalm 115:4
Idolaters, at first, worshipped the sun and moon (Job xxxi. 26), which was bad enough, but not so bad as that which they were now come to (for evil men grow worse and worse), which was the worshipping of images, v. 4. The matter of them was silver and gold, dug out of the earth (man found them poor and dirty in a mine, Herbert), proper things to make money of, but not to make gods of.
Read Matthew Henry on Psalm 115:1–8: The Absurdity of Idolatry.
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.