11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.
You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
Behold, Yahweh's eye is on those who fear him, On those who hope in his loving kindness;
Now let those who fear Yahweh say That his loving kindness endures forever.
Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, In those who hope in his loving kindness.
"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
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Psalm 115
Many ancient translations join this psalm to that which goes next before it, the Septuagint particularly, and the vulgar Latin; but it is, in the Hebrew, a distinct psalm. In it we are taught to give glory,
Some think this psalm was penned upon occasion of some great distress and trouble that the church of God was in, when the enemies were in insolent and threatening, in which case the church does not so much pour out her complaint to God as place her confidence in God, and triumph in doing so; and with such a holy triumph we ought to sing this psalm.
Psa 115:1-8
Sufficient care is here taken to answer both the pretensions of self and the reproaches of idolaters.
Psa 115:9-18
In these verses,