Isaiah 38:17

It was definitely for my own good I went through this bitter experience. You in your love saved me from the pit of destruction and you have forgiven all my sins.

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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

16Lord, we live by what you say and do, and I find life in all of this. You have given me back my health and allowed me to live.

18Those in the grave cannot praise you, the dead cannot praise you. Those who go down into the pit can no longer hope in your faithfulness.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For all that I feared has happened to me; everything that I dreaded has come upon me.

Psalms 10:2The wicked chase down the poor with impunity. May they be trapped by the evil schemes they themselves invented.

Psalms 30:6When things were going well, I said, “Nothing will ever shake me!”

Psalms 85:2You took away your people's guilt; you forgave all their sins. Selah.

Psalms 88:4I'm counted among the dying; a man with no strength.

Psalms 103:4He saves me from death; he honors me with trustworthy love and mercy.

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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