15  What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,

and he himself has done it.

^kI walk slowly all my years

because of the bitterness of my soul.

17  ^mBehold, it was for my welfare

that I had great bitterness;

ⁿbut in love you have delivered my life

from the pit of destruction,

ⁿfor you have cast all my sins

behind your back.