18. For Sheol (the place of the dead) cannot confess and reach out the hand to You, death cannot praise and rejoice in You; they who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness [to Your promises; their probation is at an end, their destiny is sealed].
19. The living, the living–they shall thank and praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make known to the children Your faithfulness and Your truth.
20. The Lord is ready to save (deliver) me; therefore we will sing my songs with [my] stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.
21. Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, that he may recover.
22. Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?