3 O Jehovah, you have lifted me* up from the Grave.*+

You kept me alive; you spared me from sinking into the pit.*+

9 A writing* of King Hez·e·kiʹah of Judah when he became sick and recovered from his sickness.

I will be deprived of my remaining years.”

17 When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet.

And he laid his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First+ and the Last,+ 18 and the living one,+ and I became dead,+ but look! I am living forever and ever,+ and I have the keys of death and of the Grave.*+