Isaiah 38:15

What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

In Context

14I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

16O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:10And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.

2 Kings 4:27And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

Job 7:11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Job 21:25And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.

Psalms 116:1I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.

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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