18 For Sheol cannot thank you;

Death cannot praise you.j

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.k

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.l

21 Now Isaiahm 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?”