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Isaiah 38:17

Hinei, 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

16Adonoi, 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

18For Sheol cannot thank Thee, 1 mavet can not praise Thee; 1 they that go down into the bor (pit) 1 cannot hope for Thy emes. 1

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Cross References

Job 3:25I was not in safety, neither had I rest, 1 neither was I quiet; 1 and rogez (tzoros, turmoil) came.

Psalms 10:2The reshah in his ga'avah (haughtiness) doth persecute the ani (poor); + 10:2 See Zech 9:9 where ani is Moshiach 1 let them be caught in the devices that they have schemed. 1

Psalms 30:6For His anger endureth but a rega; 1 in His favor is Chayyim; 1 weeping may endure for an erev, 1 but joy cometh in the boker. 1

Psalms 85:2Hashem, Thou hast been favorable unto Thy land; 1 Thou hast brought back the captivity of Ya'akov. 1

Psalms 88:4For my nefesh is full of troubles; 1 and my life draweth near unto Sheol. 1

Psalms 103:4Who is the Go'el (Redeemer) of thy life from shachat (corruption, pit, grave); 1 Who crowneth thee with chesed and rachamim; 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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