Isaiah 38:16

O 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.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

In Context

15What 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.

17See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:3And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

Psalms 30:3\30:2\O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

Psalms 119:25DALETH My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

Matthew 4:4But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

2 Corinthians 4:17For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

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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