Isaiah 38:16

Adonoi, by these things men live, 1 and in all these things is the life of my ruach; 1 so Thou recovered me to health, and made me to live. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

In Context

15What shall I say? 1 He hath both promised me, and Himself hath done it; 1 I shall walk quietly all my shanot 1 in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh. 1

17Hinei, for shalom (benefit) did I have great bitterness; 1 for Thou hast in love to my nefesh 1 delivered it from the shachat (pit) of destruction; 1 for Thou hast cast 1 all my chatta'im behind Thy back. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:3And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did Avoteicha know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by lechem only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Hashem doth man live.

Psalms 30:3Hashem Elohai, I cried unto Thee, 1 and Thou hast healed me. 1

Psalms 119:25My nefesh has deveykus unto the aphar; 1 revive Thou me according to Thy Davar. 1

Matthew 4:4But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach answered, Katuv (It is written), LO AL HALECHEM LVADOH YCHEYEH HAADAM, KI AL KOL MOTZAH FI HASHEM + 4:4 Dt 8:3 (Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Hashem).

2 Corinthians 4:17For our present momentary tzoros is preparing us for an eternal weight of kavod (glory) utterly beyond measure, + 4:17 Ps 30:5; Ro 8:17-18

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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