8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
8 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
8 Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.
8 Those who make them have become just like them, have become just like the gods they trust.
8 Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them.
8 And those who make idols are just like them, as are all who trust in them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 115:8
Commentary on Psalm 115:1-8
(Read Psalm 115:1-8)
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; not that we may have the credit and comfort of it, but that they mercy and truth may have the glory of it. The heathen gods are senseless things. They are the works of men's hands: the painter, the carver, the statuary, can put no life into them, therefore no sense. The psalmist hence shows the folly of the worshippers of idols.