3 You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit.
3 O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
3 God, you pulled me out of the grave, gave me another chance at life when I was down-and-out.
3 O Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
3 You brought me up from the grave, O Lord . You kept me from falling into the pit of death.
15 But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power
15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah
15 But me? God snatches me from the clutch of death, he reaches down and grabs me.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah
15 But as for me, God will redeem my life. He will snatch me from the power of the grave. Interlude
(Read Psalm 49:15-20)
Believers should not fear death. The distinction of men's outward conditions, how great soever in life, makes none at death; but the difference of men's spiritual states, though in this life it may seem of small account, yet at and after death is very great. The soul is often put for the life. The God of life, who was its Creator at first, can and will be its Redeemer at last. It includes the salvation of the soul from eternal ruin. Believers will be under strong temptation to envy the prosperity of sinners. Men will praise thee, and cry thee up, as having done well for thyself in raising an estate and family. But what will it avail to be approved of men, if God condemn us? Those that are rich in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, have something of which death cannot strip them, nay, which death will improve; but as for worldly possessions, as we brought nothing into the world, so it is certain that we shall carry nothing out; we must leave all to others. The sum of the whole matter is, that it can profit a man nothing to gain the whole world, to become possessed of all its wealth and all its power, if he lose his own soul, and is cast away for want of that holy and heavenly wisdom which distinguishes man from the brutes, in his life and at his death. And are there men who can prefer the lot of the rich sinner to that of poor Lazarus, in life and death, and to eternity? Assuredly there are. What need then we have of the teaching of the Holy Ghost; when, with all our boasted powers, we are prone to such folly in the most important of all concerns!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 30:3
Commentary on Psalm 30:1-5.
(Read Psalm 30:1-5.)
The great things the Lord has done for us, both by his providence and by his grace, bind us in gratitude to do all we can to advance his kingdom among men, though the most we can do is but little. God's saints in heaven sing to him; why should not those on earth do the same? Not one of all God's perfections carries in it more terror to the wicked, or more comfort to the godly, than his holiness. It is a good sign that we are in some measure partakers of his holiness, if we can heartily rejoice at the remembrance of it. Our happiness is bound up in the Divine favour; if we have that, we have enough, whatever else we want; but as long as God's anger continues, so long the saints' weeping continues.