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Psalms 115:8
8The people that make those idols will become useless like them. The same is true for everyone who trusts their idols to help them.
Psalms 115:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
- New International Version (NIV)Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them.
Context of Psalms 115:8
6It has ears, but it cannot hear! It has a nose, but it cannot smell! 7It has hands, but it cannot feel anything! It has feet, but it cannot walk! They cannot make a sound! The people that make those idols will become useless like them. The same is true for everyone who trusts their idols to help them. 9People of Israel, trust in the Lord. He is the one who helps you and keeps you safe. 10Aaron's family, trust in the Lord. He is the one who helps you and keeps you safe.
Read all of Psalms 115Psalms 115:8 word by word
כְּ֭מוֹהֶם יִהְי֣וּ עֹשֵׂיהֶ֑ם כֹּ֭ל אֲשֶׁר־בֹּטֵ֣חַ בָּהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 115:8
- Psalms 135:18The people who made them will become as they are. Everyone who trusts in idols will become as useless as their idols are.
- Isaiah 44:9All the people who make idols are fools. The images which make them so happy are useless. Those who worship idols cannot see the truth. They do not understand what they are doing, and they will be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 10:8The people of those nations are stupid and foolish. They think that wooden idols can teach them something!
- Jonah 2:8Idols cannot help. People who worship them have turned away from a faithful God.
- Habakkuk 2:18What value does an idol have? What help can it give? Somebody has made it as the image of a false god. It can only tell false messages. Why should its maker trust it for help? He has used wood or metal to make it and it cannot speak!
Commentaries on Psalms 115:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8They that make them are like unto them - Stupid; senseless; irrational. See the notes at Isaiah 44:9-20. So is everyone that trusteth in them - People who do this show that they are destitute of all the proper attributes of reason, since such gods cannot help them. It is most strange, as it appears to us, that the worshippers of idols did not themselves see this; but this is in reality no more strange than that sinners do not see the folly of their course…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Worshiping idols leads one astray and corrupts those who trust in them (Isaiah 44:20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. every one that trusteth--they who trust, whether makers or not.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 115
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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