Psalm 115:1-8

To Your Name Give Glory

1 a Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
b for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

2 Why should the nations say,
c "Where is their God?"
 3 d Our God is in the heavens;
e he does all that he pleases.

4 f Their idols are silver and gold,
g the work of human hands.
 5 They have mouths, h but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
 6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
 7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
 8 i Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 48:11
    For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
    Ezekiel 36:22
    Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God : It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
    Daniel 9:18 - 19
    O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 36:5
    Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 32:12
    Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.
    Numbers 14:13 - 14
    But Moses said to the Lord, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
    Psalms 42:3
    My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 11:4
    The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 135:6
    Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
    Daniel 4:35
    All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 115:4 - 8
    Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
    Psalms 135:15 - 18
    The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:28
    And there you will serve gods of wood and stone...
    2 Kings 19:18
    And have cast their gods into the fire, for the...
    Isaiah 37:19
    And have cast their gods into the fire. For the...
    Acts 19:26
    And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus b...
    Isaiah 44:10 - 20
    Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is pro...
    Jeremiah 10:3 - 5
    For the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tr...
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 46:7
    They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.
    Habakkuk 2:18
    What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:9
    All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
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