17. Surely it was for my own peacethat I had great bitterness;but You have kept my soulfrom the pit of corruption,for You have cast all my sinsbehind Your back.
18. For Sheol cannot thank You,death cannot praise You;those who go down into the pitcannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19. It is the living who give thanks to You,as I do this day;a father explains to his sonsabout Your faithfulness.
20. The Lord shall surely save me;therefore, we will sing my songs to the stringed instrumentsall the days of our livesin the house of the Lord.
21. For Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and lay it on the boil, and he shall recover.”
22. Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”