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16 “However, you, O Lord, are always present to protect me,
    and you grant life to my spirit;
you will restore me to health
    and enable me to live.
17 Clearly it was for my benefit
    that I suffered such anguish,
but you have preserved my life
    from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.
18 For Sheol cannot give you thanks,
    nor can death praise you.
Those who go down into the pit
    cannot hope for your kindness.
19 It is the living, only the living, who can thank you
    as I am doing today,
just as fathers make known to their sons
    your faithfulness, O God.
20 “The Lord is my savior,
    and we will sing to stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
    in the house of the Lord.”

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