14. “Like a swallow or a thrush, so I chattered; I moaned like a dove; my eyes look weakly on high. O יהוה, I am oppressed, undertake for me!
15. “What do I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted. Softly I go, all my years, because of the bitterness of my being.
16. “O יהוה, by these do men live, and my spirit finds life in all of them. Restore me and make me live.
17. “See, for peace I had what was bitter, bitter. But You have lovingly delivered my being from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18. “For the grave does not thank You, nor death praise You; those who go down to the pit do not watch for Your truth.
19. “The living, the living – he is praising You, as I do this day. A father makes known Your truth to his children.
20. “יהוה, come to save me! And let us sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the House of יהוה.”