Isaiah 38:17

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

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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

16O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalms 30:6In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”

Psalms 85:2You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah

Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Psalms 103:4who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

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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