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Isaiah 38:17

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.

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In The King James Version

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

In Context

16O LORD, by these things men live, and wholly therein is the life of my spirit. Therefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me.

Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Psalms 30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

Psalms 85:2Thou have forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou have covered all their sin. Selah.

Psalms 88:4I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,

Psalms 103:4who redeems thy life from destruction, who crowns thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →

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