Psalm 118:18

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The Lord has chastened me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

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Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.

known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;

To the roots of the mountains I sank down; the earth beneath barred me in forever. But you, Lord my God, brought my life up from the pit.

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.