Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins.
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Job 3:25Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.
Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked doth he hotly pursue the poor: they are seized through the plans that those have devised.
Psalms 30:6(30:7) And I had said indeed in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
Psalms 85:2(85:3) Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered over all their sin. Selah.
Psalms 88:4(88:5) I am counted with those that descend into the pit; I am become as a man without vigor:
Psalms 103:4Who redeemeth from the pit thy life; who crowneth thee with kindness and 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 →