²⁸ He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, My life shall see the light.'

²⁴ Then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

²² Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

⁹ Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

¹ I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

² He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

³ and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

⁹ Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁷ Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.

¹⁸ For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

² The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.

¹⁵ Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

²³ But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, But I will trust in you.

¹⁹ He shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

²⁰ So that his life abhors bread, And his soul dainty food.

¹⁸ He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.

²⁸ You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

¹⁶ Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"

²⁰ "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,

¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.