Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Lord . . . Lord—The repetition, as in Isaiah 38:19, expresses the excited feeling of the king's mind.
See the Lord (Jehovah)—figuratively for "to enjoy His good gifts." So, in a similar connection (Psalms 27:13). "I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living"; (Psalms 34:12), "What man is he that desireth life that he may see good?"
world—rather, translate: "among the inhabitants of the land of stillness," that is, Hades [MAURER], in parallel antithesis to "the land of the living" in the first clause. The Hebrew comes from a root, to "rest" or "cease" (Job 14:6).
The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Isaiah 38:9 is the heading or inscription.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 38:11:
Job 7:7
Job 28:13
Isaiah 35:10
Isaiah 38:18
Isaiah 38:19
Lamentations 3:54
Matthew 5:8
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