¹⁷ Surely it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back^[a] my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.^(A)

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
    and passing over the transgression
    of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
    because he delights in showing steadfast love.^(A)
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
    he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our^[a] sins
    into the depths of the sea.^(B)

⁶     at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
    O Lord my God.^(A)

³ O Lord, you brought up my soul from Sheol,
    restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.^[a](A)

¹³ For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.^(A)

⁴ I am counted among those who go down to the Pit;
    I am like those who have no help,^(A)
5 like those forsaken among the dead,
    like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom you remember no more,
    for they are cut off from your hand.^(B)
6 You have put me in the depths of the Pit,
    in the regions dark and deep.^(C)

² You forgave the iniquity of your people;
    you pardoned all their sin. Selah^(A)