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19He shall go{H8799)} to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see{H8799)} light.
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To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
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?
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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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