IiNdumiso 30:3

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

3 Yehova, uwunyusile kwelabafileyo umphefumlo wam, Wandidlisa ubomi, ukuba ndingehli ndiye emhadini.

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brought: Psalms 16:10, Psalms 40:1, Psalms 40:2, Psalms 56:13, Psalms 71:20, Psalms 86:13, *marg. Psalms 116:8, Job 33:19-22, Job 33:28, Isaiah 38:17, Isaiah 38:18, Jonah 2:4-6

down: Psalms 28:1

Reciprocal: Job 33:22 - his soul Psalms 9:13 - thou Psalms 30:11 - turned Psalms 107:20 - healed Hosea 13:14 - ransom Jonah 2:6 - corruption Zechariah 9:11 - out

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave,.... When his life being in danger, was near unto it, Job 33:22; otherwise the soul dies not, nor does it lie and sleep in the grave; or "thou hast brought up my soul from hell" m; 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 Psalms 116:3;

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 n 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.

m מן שאול "ab inferno", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth. n So Sept. V. L. Pagninus, Musculus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O, Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave - My life; me. The meaning is, that he had been in imminent danger of death, and had been brought from the borders of the grave. The word here rendered “grave” is “Sheol” - a word which, properly used, commonly denotes the region of the dead; the underworld which is entered through the grave. Compare Isaiah 14:9, note; Psalms 6:5, note.

Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit - More literally, “thou hast caused me to live from them which go down to the pit;” that is, thou hast distinguished me from them by keeping me alive. The word “pit” here means the same as the grave. See the notes at Psalms 28:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 30:3. Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave — I and my people were both about to be cut off; but thou hast spared us in mercy, and given us a most glorious respite.