17. Indeed, it was for my own welfarethat I had such great bitterness; but Your love has delivered mefrom the Pit of destruction, for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.
18. For Sheol cannot thank You;Death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the Pitcannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19. The living, only the living can thank You,as I do today;a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.
20. The Lord will save me;we will play stringed instrumentsall the days of our livesat the house of the Lord.
21. Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover.”
22. And Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple? ”