10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-22)We have here Hezekiah’s thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David , 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of…
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