Isaiah 38:17

It was for my benefit that I experienced such grief. 1 You have rescued me from the pit of destruction; 1 for you have thrown all my sins behind your back. 1

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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, the sufferings you send are good for me; may my life be given back to me; 1 you have restored my life and health. 1

18For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; 1 those who go down into the pit do not hope in your trustworthiness. 1

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the thing that I feared has come on me; 1 what I was afraid of has come to me. 1

Psalms 10:2Because of their arrogance, wicked people chase the oppressed; 1 but please let the wicked be trapped by their own schemes that they have devised. 1

Psalms 30:6In confidence I said, “I will never be shaken.” 1

Psalms 85:2You have forgiven the sin of your people; 1 you have covered all their sin. Selah 1

Psalms 88:4People treat me like those who go down into the pit; 1 I am a man with no strength. 1

Psalms 103:4He redeems your life from destruction; 1 he crowns you with covenant faithfulness and acts of tender mercy. 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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