They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
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Gill's Exposition
They have ears, but they hear not,.... See Gill on Psa 115:6;
neither is there any breath in their mouths; they are lifeless statues, they have not so much as what the brute creatures have, breath;…
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold ... - To show more fully the propriety of praising God, and him alone as God, the psalmist instituted a comparison between him and idols, showing that the…
The design of these verses is,
I. To arm the people of God against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods they were that the heathen worshipped, as we had it before, Psa 115:4,…
Taken with some alterations from Psa 115:4-8. The nonentity of the heathen gods is contrasted with the sovereignty of Jehovah.