John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 135:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They have ears, but they hear not, etc.] (See Gill on “<19B506>Psalm 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; our Jehovah, as the living God, is rightly opposed to them, who gives life, and breath, and all things, unto man; and yet what amazing stupidity is it, that any of them should worship such as gods, who have not what they themselves have.

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