John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 38:19
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 who are alive in a corporeal sense can praise the Lord in this world; and none but such who are spiritually alive can praise him aright, and such do under a true sense of the greatness of his mercies, and of their own unworthiness; and such a one was Hezekiah; for the words may be rendered, "as... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee ,.... That is, they that are in the grave, and under the power of death, they cannot celebrate the praises of God with their bodily organs; their souls may praise him in heaven, but they in their bodies cannot till the resurrection morn, or as long as they are under the dominion of the grave; so the Targum, "they that are in the grave cannot confess before thee, and the dead cannot praise thee;' in like manner the Septuagint... read more