17. Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18. For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20. Jehovah was purposed to save me. --And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.
21. Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22. And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah?