²⁰ He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.

⁸ And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.

¹⁵ He sends out his orders to the earth; his word goes out quickly.

²⁸ He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.

²⁹ Truly, God does all these things to man, twice and three times,

³⁰ Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

⁴ Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

⁵ Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

¹⁸ At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

¹⁹ He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

³ He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.

³ He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases;

⁴ He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

¹³ Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

² O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

³ O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

²³ If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

²⁴ And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:

²⁵ Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

²⁶ He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;

⁸ And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

⁹ So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

¹⁵ But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)