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15But God will redeem{H8799)} my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive{H8799)} me. Selah.
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Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Good reason is here given to good people, I. Why they should not be afraid of death. There is no cause for that fear if they have such a comfortable prospect as David here has of a happy state on the other side death, Ps. 49:15. He had shown (Ps. 49:14) how miserable the dead are that die in their sins, where he shows how blessed the dead are that die in the Lord. The distinction of men’s outward…
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