Psalms 30:2,3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Thou hast healed me That is, delivered me from the fears and troubles of my mind, (which are often compared to diseases,) and from very dangerous distempers of my body. For the original word is used, either of the healing of bodily disorders, Psalms 103:3, or to denote the happy alteration of a person's affairs, either in public or private life, by the removal of any kind of distress, personal or national, Psalms 107:20; Isaiah 19:22. Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave My deliverance is a kind of resurrection from the grave, on the very brink of which I was. Under Saul he was frequently in the most imminent danger of his life, out of which God wonderfully brought him. Thou hast kept me alive This he adds, to explain the former phrase, which was ambiguous. That I should not go down to the pit That is, into the grave, which is often called the pit.

Psalms 30:2-3

2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

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.