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.
Ver. 3. O Lord, thou hast brought up, &c.] Here he saith the same again as before; the better to set forth the greatness of the benefit, and so to excite himself to due thankfulness. The uttermost extremity of a calamity is to be acknowledged after we are delivered out of it, Isaiah 38:10 .
Thou hast kept me alive] Thou hast rescued me from instant death; and this I look upon as a resurrection from the dead.