John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 30:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave, etc.] When his life being in danger, was near unto it, (<183322>Job 33:22,28); otherwise the soul dies not, nor does it lie and sleep in the grave; or “thou hast brought up my soul from hell” f455; that is, delivered him from those horrors of conscience and terrors of mind, by reason of sin, which were as hell itself unto him; (see <19B603>Psalm 116:3 Jon 2:4); thou hast kept me alive: preserved his corporeal life when in danger, and maintained his spiritual life; and quickened him by his word, under all his afflictions, and kept him from utter and black despair; that I should not go down to the pit; either of the grave or hell. There is in this clause a “Keri” and a “Cetib”; a marginal reading, and a textual writing: according to the latter it is, “from them that go down to the pit”; which some versions f456 follow; that is, thou hast preserved me from going along with them, and being where and as they are: our version follows the former; the sense is the same.

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