Isaiah 38:15

What do I say? Seeing He spoke to me, || And He Himself has worked, || I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

Literal Standard Version

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

14As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, || I mourn as a dove, || My eyes have been drawn up on high, || O YHWH, oppression [is] on me, be my guarantor.

16Lord, [men] live by these, || And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, || And You save me, make me to also live,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:10And she is bitter in soul, and prays to YHWH, and weeps greatly,

2 Kings 4:27And she comes to the man of God, to the hill, and lays hold on his feet, and Gehazi comes near to thrust her away, and the man of God says, “Leave her alone, for her soul [is] bitter to her, and YHWH has hidden [it] from me, and has not declared [it] to me.”

Job 7:11Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 21:25And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, || And has not eaten with gladness.

Psalms 116:1I have loved, because YHWH hears My voice, my supplication,

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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