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.”