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Psalm 115

Psa. 115:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Notc unto us, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, not unto us, but unto thy name
shem (Hebrew #8034)
an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
KJV usage: + base, (in-)fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
Pronounce: shame
Origin: a primitive word (perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064)
give
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
glory
kabowd (Hebrew #3519)
from 3513; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
KJV usage: glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).
Pronounce: kaw-bode'
Origin: rarely kabod {kaw-bode'}
, for thy mercy
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
, and for thy truth’s
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
sake.
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Isa. 48:11• 11For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another. (Isa. 48:11)
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Ezek. 36:32• 32Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. (Ezek. 36:32)

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Glory,
Mercy,
Truth

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-3:  Because God is truly glorious,
4-8:  and idols are vanity,
9-11:  he exhorts to confidence in God.
12-18:  God is to be blessed for his blessings.
A.M. 3108.
B.C. 896.
(Title.)This seems to be an [epinikion,] or triumphal song, in which the victory is wholly ascribed to Jehovah; and to none can it be referred with more propriety than to that of Jehoshaphat over the confederated forces of his enemies, 2 Ch 20.unto us.
Psa. 74:22• 22Rise up, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day; (Psa. 74:22)
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Psa. 79:9‑10• 9Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake.
 10Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight. (Psa. 79:9‑10)
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Josh. 7:9• 9When the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, they will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. And what wilt thou do unto thy great name? (Josh. 7:9)
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Isa. 48:11• 11For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another. (Isa. 48:11)
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Ezek. 20:14• 14But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out. (Ezek. 20:14)
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Ezek. 36:32• 32Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. (Ezek. 36:32)
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Dan. 9:19• 19Lord, hear! Lord, forgive! Lord, hearken and do! defer not, for thine own sake, O my God! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. (Dan. 9:19)
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Eph. 1:6• 6to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has taken us into favour in the Beloved: (Eph. 1:6)
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Rev. 4:10‑11• 10the twenty-four elders shall fall before him that sits upon the throne, and do homage to him that lives to the ages of ages; and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
 11Thou art worthy, O our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honour and power; for *thou* hast created all things, and for thy will they were, and they have been created. (Rev. 4:10‑11)
for thy mercy.
Psa. 61:7• 7He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. (Psa. 61:7)
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Psa. 89:1‑2• 1An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.
 2For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness. (Psa. 89:1‑2)
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Mic. 7:20• 20Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old. (Mic. 7:20)
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John 1:17• 17For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17)
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Rom. 15:8‑9• 8For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;
 9and that the nations should glorify God for mercy; according as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the nations, and will sing to thy name. (Rom. 15:8‑9)
• Book 5, Series 2. Ten tribes restored. (““The Placement of the Psalms in Prophecy”” by B. Anstey)
• This psalm gives the moral side of Israel’s deliverance. The ten tribes who have long been marked by idolatry (2 Ki. 17:7-41, Hos. 4:17) are seen as having judged their idols (Hos. 14:8) that held them (vs. 1-8). (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)
• (vs. 1) The opening verse gives the theme of the psalm—God’s people refusing any merit in themselves, and ascribing all blessing to the Lord. Psalms 114 had traced their deliverance to the presence of the Lord acting in power on behalf of His people. Psalms 115 shuts out the power and glory of man. (“Psalms 115” by H. Smith)
• The first principle here brought under our eye is setting the Lord's glory first, a simple but mighty one— “not to us but to thy name.” So we find perfectly in Christ. But this is followed, for all that, by the connection of that glory with God's people. The first principle gives purity of motive—this the courage and hope of faith. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 114-118” by J.N. Darby)
• They have failed on their side to take up the promise in the path of righteousness. Yet God has promised, and here His name of government in grace comes in. “Give the glory to thy name for thy mercy,” that is part of His name; “and for thy truth's sake,” that is another. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 114-118” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Not unto us, O Jehovah, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth’s sake.