Psalm 116 (15 of 19 notes)

15. He did not let the psalmist die. This seems to indicate that the song was meant to remind Jewish families of the mercies received by any one of the household, supposing him to have been sore sick and to have been restored to health, for the Lord values the lives of his saints, and often spares them where others perish. They will not die prematurely. The death-beds of saints are very precious to all believers, who delight to treasure up the last words of the departed, but they are most of all precious to the Lord himself, who views the triumphant deaths of his gracious ones with sacred delight. If we have walked before him in the land of the living, we need not fear to die before him when the hour of our departure is at hand.