Salmos 115:17

La Biblia Reina-Valera

No alabarán los muertos á JAH, Ni cuantos descienden al silencio;

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Los muertos no alaban al Señor , ni ninguno de los que descienden al silencio.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
No alabar�n los muertos a Jehov�, ni cuantos descienden al silencio;

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
No alabar�n los muertos a JAH, ni todos los que descienden al silencio;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

dead: Psalms 6:5, Psalms 30:9, Psalms 88:10-12, Isaiah 38:18, Isaiah 38:19

go down: Psalms 31:17, 1 Samuel 2:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:29 - after these Psalms 94:17 - dwelt

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 be made spiritually alive, ere they can show forth the praises of God: nor the dead corporeally. The souls of departed saints can and do praise the Lord: these die not with their bodies, nor sleep in the grave; they go immediately to God and Christ, and are employed in the service of God continually; particularly in praising him, as do the angels with whom they join; they sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb, of providence and grace; especially the song of redeeming love, with which they always praise the Lord: but they cannot praise him with their bodily organs until the resurrection, which by death are rendered useless; they can praise him no more among men on earth, as they have before done; there is no work of this kind in the grave.

Neither any that go down in silence; the grave, so called, because everything is mute and silent there c; the instruments of speech are no more used on any account; no noise and clamour there from wicked men; there the wicked cease from troubling; and no songs of praise from good men, all still and quiet there. So the Targum,

"not any that go down to the house of the grave of the earth;''

or the earthly grave. And therefore save us, O Lord, suffer not the enemy to destroy us; for, should he, we shall no more be capable of praising thee, as we have done and desire to do; for no such service is to be done in the grave, see Psalms 6:4.

c "Silet rex ipsa silentum", Virgil. "Migrantesque domos animarum intrasse silentum". Propert. l. 3. Eleg. 12. v. 33.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 while we are in the land of the living. This opportunity, like all other opportunities, will be cut off in the grave, and hence, we should be faithful in this duty, and should avail ourselves of this privilege, while life lasts. In regard to the sentiment here expressed, and the grounds on which that sentiment was entertained, see the notes at Isaiah 38:18-19; notes at Psalms 6:5.

Neither any that go down into silence - Into the grave - the land of silence. Psalms 94:17. Nothing is more impressive in regard to the grave than its utter silence. Not a voice, not a sound, is heard there - of birds or human beings - of song or conversation - of the roaring of the sea, the sighing of the breeze, the fury of the storm, the tumult of battle. Perfect stillness reigns there; and the first sound that shall be heard there will be the archangel’s trump.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 115:17. The dead praise not the Lord — המתים hammethim, those dead men who worshipped as gods dumb idols, dying in their sins, worship not Jehovah; nor can any of those who go down into silence praise thee: earth is the place in which to praise the Lord for his mercies, and get a preparation for his glory.