Five benefits of God’s grace are now enumerated: forgiveness, healing, redemption (rescue), crowning of life with mercy, and renewal (vv. 3–5). Life’s terrifying contrasts are listed, with focus on the One who alone has power to make life new from sin, illness, or despair. One view, among others held in the OT, saw illness as the result of some offense (Ps 32:3–5; see comments on Ps 102:9–10). The singer can announce personal sins forgiven, personal infirmities healed. The Pit refers to the place