11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. …
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. …
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. …
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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