³ Lord, you brought me up from Sheol;^(A)
you spared me from among those
going down^[a] to the Pit.^(B)

⁹ ‘What gain is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it proclaim your truth?^(A)

¹² Let’s swallow them alive,^(A) like Sheol,
whole, like those who go down to the Pit.^(B)

¹⁴ Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat
and opens wide its enormous jaws,^(A)
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who celebrate in her!