for You will not leave My soul in Sheol; nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par I waited patiently for Jehovah, and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and secured my steps.

for You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

who has shown me great and evil distresses. You will revive me again, and bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.

Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, and with perpetual strife in his bones,

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones which once were not seen are laid bare.

Behold, instead of peace I was bitter with bitterness; but You have delighted in delivering my soul from the pit of corruption. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

And I said, I am cast off from Your sight; yet I will again look to Your holy temple.

I went down to the bases of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever. Yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

i1 [A Psalm of David.] i0 par I will cry unto You, O Jehovah my Rock: Do not be silent to me, lest, if You be deaf to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.