This is the strangest psalm I’ve read so far — comparing Old Hebrew YHWH to the idols worshiped by everyone else in that ancient world back then.
These other gods are described as statues of “silver and gold, / The work of men’s hands,” without the senses whose organs this psalmist lists in detail.
“Those who make them are like them,” quips the poet. “So is everyone who trusts in them” — that is, with no sense at all, the wry writer must mean to say.
“But our Lord is in heaven,” the psalmist adds. “He does whatever He pleases.” Now, I’m not sure if that remark refers to YHWH’s independence or person.
Is the writer saying that YAH does have a working mouth, eyes, ears, nose, hands, feet, and throat? Is His body like that of an earthly man? And if so, why?