I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Death. This must be understood of eternal misery, from which the just are preserved. All must die, and many suffered a violent death from the Assyrians. Worthington.—After denouncing the severest judgments, the prophet promises redress and a sort of resurrection, which was a figure of the real sufferings and rising of Jesus Christ. The apostle applies this text to him, but follows not the Hebrew or Septuagint 1 Corinthians 15:55. Calmet.—Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? Prot. read, O grave, (marg. hell) instead of the latter death. Hebrew ehi has been twice placed for aie, I will be instead of where? ( Bible.) as the Greek Arab. and Syr. versions, as wll as the context, evince. All the versions prove the same corruption to be. verse 10. Kennicott, Aquila, and the 5. edit. read where? Sym. I will be: (Saint Jerome) so that the change probably took place between A. 130 and 200. Septuagint “Where is thy cause gained, (in a lawsuit, or thy justice; δικη. Bible.) O death?” and so forth—Eyes. I can find no consolation, (Saint Jerome) because the people cause dissension by their perseverance in evil. Hebrew also, “repentance,” and so forth I will utterly destroy Ephraim; or rather, “vengeance … because he shall flourish,” and so forth If Ephraim would repent, this should not take place; but now, the Lord will bring Salmanasar, a burning wind. verse 15. Calmet.
Sheol is the place of the dead.