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.”
21. For Yeshayahu had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it on the boil, so that he lives.”
22. And Ḥizqiyahu asked, “What is the sign that I go up to the House of יהוה?”