Psalms 115:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

Psalms 115:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

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Adultery Gentiles Gods Groves Heathen High Places Iconoclasm Idol

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters. I. Boasting is here for ever excluded, Ps. 115:1. Let no opinion of our own merits have any room either in our prayers or in our praises, but let both centre in God’s glory. 1. Have we received any mercy, gone through any service, or gained any success? We must not assume the glory of it to oursel…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

4-7. (Compare Is 40:18-20; 44:9-20).