Psalms 115:8
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Psalms 115:8 in other translations
| BSB | Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them. |
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| WEB | Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them. |
| ASV | They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them. |
| YLT | Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them. |
| DARBY | They that make them are like unto them, — every one that confideth in them. |
| BBE | Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them. |
| Webster | They that make them are like them; so is every one that trusteth in them. |
What does Psalms 115:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 115:1-8
by trusting in him and praising him. (9-18) Verses 1-8 Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; and all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, and he must have all the praise. Are we in pursuit of any mercy, and wrestling with God for it, we must take encouragement in prayer from God only. Lord, do so for us…
Psalms 115:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 115:8
- Psalms 135:18
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
- Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
- Habakkuk 2:18-19
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
- Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
- Isaiah 44:9-20
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. …
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Context
- Psalms 115:7
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
- Psalms 115:8
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
- Psalms 115:9
O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms 115:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como ellos son los que los hacen; cualquiera que en ellos confía. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ceux qui les ont faites, tous ceux qui se confient en elles, sont comme elles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihnen gleich sind die, die sie machen, ein jeder, der auf sie vertraut. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | tibi sacrificabo hostiam laudis, et nomen Domini invocabo. |