The Lord has punished me severely, but he did not let me die.
From this time on, your family will live by the sword because you have despised me by taking Uriah’s wife to be your own.
He will save you from death in time of famine, from the power of the sword in time of war.
I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O Lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death!
Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
We are ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed.