1 Samuel 2:9; Isaiah 38:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalms 30:9; Psalms 31:17; Psalms 6:5; Psalms 88:10-12
The dead praise not the Lord - The meaning of this is, that as those who are dead cannot praise God, or cannot worship him, this should be done w...
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that (l) go down into silence. (l) Though the dead set forth God's glory, yet he means here, that they pra...
CXV. The Blindness of Idolatry and the Virtue of Utter Trust in Yahweh. Psalms 115:2 f. An invisible god was unintelligible to the average heath...
THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4.
17 O God! the dead shall not praise thee In these words the prophet goes on to beseech God to show himself propitious towards his Church, we...
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. The dead praise not the Lord - המתים hammethim, those dead men who worshipped as...
The dead praise not the Lord— See on Psalms 6:5 . REFLECTIONS.— 1st, The Psalmist here, 1. Bids the people of God ascribe not to themselves,...
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence - no...
In LXX 114, 115 are one Ps., while 116 is divided into two. Apparently Psalms 115 was written to be sung antiphonally: cp. the responses in Psalms...
Silence ] i.e. Sheol, where there is no communion with God.
Silence. — The land of silence is, of course, Sheôl, the under-world. (So the LXX., “Hades.”)
The connection of these verses with the rest of the psalm is far from plain. Why the psalmist should suddenly be struck with the dreadful thought tha...
Psalms 115:1-18 ISRAEL is in straits from heathen enemies, and cries to Jehovah to vindicate His own Name by delivering it. Strengthened by faith,...
Powerless Idols; Our Powerful God Psalms 115:1-18 Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms 115:1-8 by the whole...
This third psalm in the Hallel is born of passion for the glory of the name of Jehovah. That is its opening note, and all that follows must be explai...
Here is a striking contrast between the dead and the living. And why may we not interpret it as the real state of the case between the dead in trespa...
The dead praise not the Lord ,.... Not the dead in sin; such as the makers of idols, and those that trust in them, who are like unto them; men must...
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. Ver. 17. The dead praise not ] Therefore be active for God while we are upon...
The dead praise not the Lord See note on Psalms 6:5 . Neither any that go into silence Into the place of silence, the grave. But we will bless...
Confidence in God. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the L ORD : he is thei...
The dead; such as we shall suddenly be, if thou dost not succour us. Into silence; into the place of silence, the grave.
INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship uncertain. Has been ascribed to the immediate post exilie psalmists, and to the poets of the time of the Macca...
dead ( See Scofield) - ( Ecclesiastes 9:10 ).
Psalms 115:1-19 . Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. Wherefore should the hea...
This is one of the Psalms, which were sung by the Jews at the feast of the Passover. It is highly probable that they were sung by our Lord on that me...
Whether this psalm was written after some victory, or after the removal of any calamity which had caused the heathen to boast, is not certain. But bl...
Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory. Genuine religious consciousness I. A consciousness of God’s greatness leading t...
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. But we will bless the Lord. Living praise The living God should be adored...
EXPOSITION A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is one...
Vindication of God's Glory over against the Idols. This psalm may have been a cry of Israel for the assistance of the Lord in the face of invading...
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence, into the realm of the dead; for then, for a season, their mouth is stilled, they...
Silence — Into the place of silence, the grave.
17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.