who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.

so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.