16 For you will forget your suffering,
recalling it only as water that has flowed by.
17 Your life will be brighter than noonday;
its darkness[a] will be like the morning.(A)
18 You will be confident, because there is hope.(B)
You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:17 Text emended; MT reads noonday; you are dark, you

16 You will surely forget your trouble,(A)
    recalling it only as waters gone by.(B)
17 Life will be brighter than noonday,(C)
    and darkness will become like morning.(D)
18 You will be secure, because there is hope;
    you will look about you and take your rest(E) in safety.(F)

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