Isaiah 38:16-22 ▼

16 Lord, because of these promises people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well; You have restored me to health and let me live.

17 Indeed, it was for my own welfare that I had such great 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 will 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?”