who make and worship idols will become like those very idols: “Those who make them will be like them, everyone who trusts in them” (Ps 115:8; cf. Ps 135:18). Hence, the reader of the psalm is to deduce that worshipers of idols will be judged by being made to resemble the idols portrayed in Psalm 115:5–7, that is, through “having eyes but not seeing” and so forth. Part of the implication of the psalm is that Israel is to “bless” and “revere” the Lord and not the nations’ idols (Ps 135:19–21), lest
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