Psalms 115:8

"They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat."

Key Reflection

These verses metaphorically describe idols as lifeless and ineffective; they cannot sense or respond to the world around them, highlighting their lack of spiritual significance. This imagery underscores the folly of trusting in false deities that offer no true support or guidance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They that make them are like unto them -Stupid; senseless; irrational. See the notes atIsaiah 44:9-20. So is everyone that trusteth in them -People who do this show that they are destitute of all the proper attributes of reason, since such gods cannot help them. It is most strange, as it appears to us, that the worshippers of idols did not themselves see this; but this is in reality no more strange than that sinners do not see the folly of their course of sin; that people do not see the folly of worshipping no God. In fact, there is less of folly among the pagan than there is in this class of men.

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