Isaiah 38:16-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶ Your words and your deeds
bring life to everyone,
    including me.^[a]
Please make me healthy
    and strong again.
¹⁷ It was for my own good
    that I had such hard times.
But your love protected me
    from doom in the deep pit,^[b]
and you turned your eyes
    away from my sins.

^18 (A) No one in the world of the dead
    can thank you or praise you;
none of those in the deep pit
can hope for you
    to show them
    how faithful you are.