Psalms 115:8 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 115:8

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

KJV

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WEB

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

ASV

They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

YLT

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

DBT

They that make them are like unto them, — every one that confideth in them.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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15 verses on the floor

Psalms 135:18
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
Habakkuk 2:18–19
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
Jonah 2:8
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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Voices1

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By worshipping these foolish puppets, they make themselves more and more foolish like them, and set themselves at a greater distance from every thing that is spiritual, sinking themselves deeper into the mire of sense; and withal they provoke God to give them up to a reprobate mind, a mind void of judgment, Rom. i.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H982120× in canon H3644143× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 115:8JON 2:8 JER 10:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 115:8JON 2:8 PSA 31:6
PSA 115:8JON 2:8 2KI 17:15
PSA 115:8JON 2:8 JER 2:13
PSA 115:8JON 2:8 1SA 12:21
PSA 115:8JER 10:8 JER 10:14
PSA 115:8JER 10:8 ZEC 10:2
PSA 115:8PSA 135:18 2CO 4:4

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