geneva@Psalms:115:1 @ Not (note:)Because God promised to deliver them, not for their sakes, but for his Name, (Isa_48:11), therefore they ground their prayer on this promise.(:note) unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.
geneva@Psalms:115:2 @ Wherefore should the heathen say, (note:)When the wicked see that God does not always accomplish his promise as they imagined, they think there is no God.(:note) Where [is] now their God?
geneva@Psalms:115:3 @ But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath (note:)No impediments can slow his work, but he uses even the impediments to serve his will.(:note) pleased.
geneva@Psalms:115:4 @ Their idols [are] (note:)Seeing that neither the matter nor the form can commend their idols it follows that there is no reason that they should be esteemed.(:note) silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
geneva@Psalms:115:7 @ They have (note:)He shows what great vanity it is to ask help from them who not only have no help in them, but lack sense and reason.(:note) hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
geneva@Psalms:115:8 @ They that make them are (note:)As much without sense as blocks and stones.(:note) like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
geneva@Psalms:115:9 @ O Israel, trust thou in the Lorde: for he is their helpe and their shielde.
geneva@Psalms:115:11 @ Ye that feare the Lorde, trust in the Lord: for he is their helper and their shield.
geneva@Psalms:115:12 @ The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless [us]; he (note:)That is, he will continue his graces toward his people.(:note) will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
geneva@Psalms:115:14 @ The Lord will increase his graces towarde you, euen toward you and toward your children.
geneva@Psalms:115:15 @ Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which (note:)And therefore still governs and continues all things in it.(:note) made heaven and earth.
geneva@Psalms:115:16 @ The (note:)And they declare enough his sufficiency so that the world serves him nothing, but to show his fatherly care toward men.(:note) heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
geneva@Psalms:115:17 @ The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that (note:)Though the dead set forth God's glory, yet he means here, that they praise him not in his Church and congregation.(:note) go down into silence.
geneva@Psalms:115:18 @ But we will prayse the Lorde from henceforth and for euer. Prayse ye the Lord.