17. Indeed it was for my own peaceThat I had great bitterness;But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18. For Sheol cannot thank You,Death cannot praise You;Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
19. The living, the living man, he shall praise You,As I do this day;The father shall make known Your truth to the children.
20. “The Lord was ready to save me;Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”
21. Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
22. And Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”