18 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. 19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness. 20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
Isaiah 38:18–20
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Psalms 6:4–6
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Psalms 115:16–18
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Psalms 118:16–18
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Psalms 145:9–11
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Psalms 86:12–14
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Psalms 56:12–13
12 Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You. 13 For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
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