Isaiah 38:16-22 ▼

16 Lord, by such things people live, and in every one of them my spirit finds life; you have restored me to health and let me live.

17 Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such intense bitterness; but your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.

18 For Sheol cannot thank you; Death cannot praise you. Those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

19 The living, only the living can thank you, as I do today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

20 The LORD is ready to save me; we will play stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the house of the LORD.

21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover.”

22 And Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD’s temple? ”