Isaiah 38:17

For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all my sins behind me.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

16Yes, O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.

18For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

Psalms 10:2Flee to the mountains as a sparrow? 1

Psalms 30:6You have hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. 1

Psalms 85:2Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save your servant, O God, who hopes in you. 1

Psalms 88:4I will + 88:4 Gr. prepare. establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. 1

Psalms 103:4+ 103:4 Heb 1:7 Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire. 1

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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