Like Them
Psalms 115:8 (KJV)
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
This verse struck me with curiosity today. The Bible says of idols, in the verses just previous to this,
Psalms 115:4-7 (KJV)
*Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
Here, the Bible says that they who make them and trust them are like them:*
They are the work of men’s hands
Their substance is silver and gold
They cannot speak
They cannot see
They cannot hear
They cannot smell
They cannot touch
They cannot walk
They do not speak through their throat.
I see a ton of symbolism here. There are also some allusions to these in the New Testament.[1]
Barnes Notes comments simply, “Stupid; senseless; irrational.”
John Gill says, “As stupid as the matter of which they are made; as sottish and as senseless as the idols themselves, … they liked not to retain God in their knowledge, let them be given up to a reprobate mind, to a mind void of all sense and judgment; and which indeed is their case.”
Cambridge Notes says, “Such gods drag down their worshippers to the same level of senseless stupidity: they must perish, for their protectors are powerless.”
[1] Luke 8:8 (KJV)
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
As well as many similar verses.
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Psalms 115:8 (KJV) Like Them
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