³ Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

¹ > To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

¹³ For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹⁰ For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, Neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

⁴ I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

⁵ The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

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.

⁸ For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.

²⁰ You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, You will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

¹³ For you have delivered my soul from death, And prevented my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.

¹ > I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

² He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.

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

¹⁹ He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;

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

²¹ His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen; His bones that were not seen stick out.

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