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16 O Lord, by these things people live,
    and in all these is the life of my spirit.[a]
    Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
17 Surely it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness,
but you have held back[b] my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 38.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 38.17 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb loved

19 The living, the living, they thank you,
    as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
    your faithfulness.(A)

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