1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith. 2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God? 3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him. 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; 7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them. 9 O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate. 10 O house of Aaron, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate. 11 You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate. 12 The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron. 13 He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great. 14 May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase. 15 May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men. 17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld. 18 But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
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Psalm 115 Bible in Basic English
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 79:9–10; Isaiah 48:11; Psalm 96:8; Ezekiel 20:14; Ezekiel 36:32
- 2 Psalm 79:10; Psalm 42:3; Psalm 42:10; Exodus 32:12; Deuteronomy 32:26–27
- 3 Psalm 135:6; Daniel 4:35; Isaiah 46:10; Ephesians 1:11; Psalm 103:19
- 4 Deuteronomy 4:28; Isaiah 46:6–7; Jeremiah 10:3–5; Isaiah 40:19–20; Habakkuk 2:18–20
- 5 Jeremiah 10:5
- 8 Psalm 135:18; Jeremiah 10:8; Habakkuk 2:18–19; Jonah 2:8; Isaiah 44:9–20
- 9 Psalm 62:8; Psalm 37:3; Proverbs 30:5; Psalm 118:2–4; Psalm 135:19–20
- 10 Psalm 118:3; Exodus 28:1; Numbers 16:5; Numbers 18:7; Numbers 16:40
- 11 Proverbs 14:26; Acts 10:35; Psalm 147:11; Proverbs 30:5; Psalm 103:11
- 12 Ephesians 1:3; Psalm 136:23; Isaiah 44:21; Genesis 12:2–3; Isaiah 49:14–16
- 13 Psalm 112:1; Luke 1:50; Psalm 128:1; Revelation 19:5; Psalm 29:11
- 14 Deuteronomy 1:11; Acts 2:39; Acts 3:25; Jeremiah 33:22; Genesis 17:7
- 15 Psalm 134:3; Revelation 14:7; Genesis 14:19; Genesis 1:1; Psalm 121:2
- 16 Psalm 8:6; Psalm 89:11; Genesis 1:28–30; Jeremiah 27:5–6; Genesis 9:1–3
- 17 Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18–19; Psalm 88:10–12; Psalm 30:9; Psalm 31:17
- 18 Psalm 113:2; Daniel 2:20; Psalm 145:21; Revelation 5:13; Psalm 145:2
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
When ye hear sung in the Psalms, "Praise the Lord, ye children" (ver. 1); imagine not that that exhortation pertaineth not unto you, because having already passed the youth of the body, ye are either blooming in the prime of manhood, or growing gray with the honours of old age: for unto all of you the Apostle saith, "Brethren, be …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… all their power by the breath of His mouth." But that He did Himself make all things freely, and as He pleased, again David says, "But our God is in the heavens above, and in the earth; He hath made all things whatsoever He pleased." But the things established are distinct from Him who has established them, and what have …
But where is that heaven of heavens, O Lord, of which we hear in the words of the Psalm, The heaven of heavens are the Lord's, but the earth hath He given to the children of men? Where is the heaven, which we behold not, in comparison of which all this, which we behold, is earth?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… not the leper commended, who showed forth things greater than these?" For he did not so much as say, "speak the word," but what was far more, "be willing only," which is what the prophet saith concerning the Father, "He hath done whatsoever He pleased." But he also was commended.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… the Prophets believe not what is written, and allege against us that passage, The ungodly shall not rise up in judgment, and, For if man go down to the grave he shall come up no more, and, The dead shall not praise Thee, O Lord,--for of what is well written, they have made ill use--it will be well in …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)