Isaiah 38:17

Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.

Geneva Bible 1599

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, to them that ouerliue them, and to all that are in them, the life of my spirite shalbe knowen, that thou causedst me to sleepe and hast giuen life to me.

18For the graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise thee: they that goe downe into the pit, cannot hope for thy trueth.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

Psalms 10:2The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

Psalms 30:6And in my prosperitie I sayde, I shall neuer be moued.

Psalms 85:2Thou hast forgiuen the iniquitie of thy people, and couered all their sinnes. Selah.

Psalms 88:4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

Psalms 103:4Which redeemeth thy life from the graue, and crowneth thee with mercy and compassions.

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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