Psalms 115:4-8 - Exposition

The scorn of the heathen is retaliated. They scoff at the God of Israel. What, then, are their own gods? Silver and gold indeed ( Psalms 115:4 ), but the work of human hands. Fashioned into a human shape, as if they were sentient being—but absolutely devoid of all sense and intelligence. The satire is somewhat roughly worked out ( Psalms 115:5-7 ), but idolatry provokes rough speaking; and the tone here adopted is imitated in Psalms 135:15-18 , and echoed in Isaiah 44:9-20 . The inspired writers seem to have felt, that, when idolatry came under consideration, the criticism should be brief and trenchant.