Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for my 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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Job 3:25For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 30:6(30-7) Now I had said in my security: 'I shall never be moved.'
Psalms 85:2(85-3) Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast pardoned all their sin. Selah
Psalms 88:4(88-5) I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;
Psalms 103:4Who redeemeth Thy life from the pit; who encompasseth thee with lovingkindness 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 →