For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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Gill's Exposition
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day,.... Every one of the living, or such who are both corporeally and spiritually alive; and therefore the word is repeated; none but such…
Barnes' Notes
For the grave cannot praise thee - The Hebrew word here is sheol. It is put by metonymy here for those who are in the grave, that is, for the dead. The word ‘praise’ here refers evidently to the…
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;…
The deepest motive for the saint's gratitude is that only on earth can he know the joys of fellowship with God.
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