Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 38:18
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Isaiah38:18
18 For the grave cannot praise thee e, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit connot hope for thy truth .
In this and the following verse, he declares Gods design in delivering him, that he might praise him in his Church; which if he had died he could not have done.
They cannot expect nor receive the accomplishment of thy promised goodness in the Land of the Living.
l The dead are not capable of glorifying thy Name among men upon Earth: which I desire and determine to do. See the like expressions, Psal. 6. 5. and 30. 9. and 88▪ 10. &c. The Grave is put for the persons lodged in it by a Metonymy.
Marginal references: Heb. Hell.; Psal. 115. 17.
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