The idols of the heathen are silver and gold ... - To show more fully the propriety of praising God, and him alone as God, the psal…

With slight variations from Psalms 115:4-8.

They can do no works, for they are themselves the result of the work of men. Their handiwork can be nothing, for they are the work of men's hands.<…

The images of the nations, etc. Since the whole of this part of the Psalm has been explained elsewhere, it is unnecessary to elaborate on …

The idols of the Heathen [are] silver and gold
This, with what follows, is observed, to show that when God judges hi…

These verses arm believers against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods pagans worshipped. The more deplorable the conditio…