> I'm wondering whether the idea of silence in
> praise has merit; one commentary I read said that
> "silence" and "praise" are
> mutually exclusive terms but I'm not so sure.
here is the opinion of the palestinian talmud, who also had difficulties
with this verse:
lecha dumiya tehila... lemargalit deleit la timei, kol shemeshabe'ach ba
pogmah (Brachot 12d)
the praise for god is like the praise for a precious stone: every praise is
less than the praise it deserves.