Psalms 115:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Psalms 115:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Isaiah 38:18-19
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. …
Psalms 88:10-12
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. …
Psalms 31:17
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Psalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Topics

Dead (people)Death Dying Hades Life Man Sleep

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

In these verses, I. We are earnestly exhorted, all of us, to repose our confidence in God, and not suffer our confidence in him to be shaken by the heathens’ insulting over us upon the account of our present distresses. It is folly to trust in dead images, but it is wisdom to trust in the living God, for he is a help and a shield to those that do trust in them, a help to furnish them with and forw…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

15-17. They were not only God’s peculiar people, but as living inhabitants of earth, assigned the work of His praise as monuments of divine power, wisdom, and goodness.