11 Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield `is' He.'
Ye who fear Jehovah, praise ye Him, All the seed of Jacob, honour ye Him, And be afraid of Him, all ye seed of Israel.
Lo, the eye of Jehovah `is' to those fearing Him, To those waiting for His kindness,
I pray you, let those fearing Jehovah say, That, to the age `is' His kindness.
Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.
Every saying of God `is' tried, A shield He `is' to those trusting in Him.
but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working 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,