Isaiah 38:17

Behold, He changed bitterness to peace for me, || And You have delighted in my soul without corruption, || For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Literal Standard Version

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

18For Sheol does not confess You, || Death does not praise You, || Those going down to the pit do not hope for Your truth.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For I feared a fear and it meets me, || And what I was afraid of comes to me.

Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked, || Is the poor inflamed, || They are caught in schemes that they devised.

Psalms 30:6And I have said in my ease, “I am not moved for all time.

Psalms 85:2You have carried away the iniquity of Your people, || You have covered all their sin. Selah.

Psalms 88:4I have been reckoned with those going down [to] the pit, || I have been as a man without strength.

Psalms 103:4Who is redeeming your life from destruction, || Who is crowning you [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 →

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