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Isaiah 38:17

Behold, it was for my peace that 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.

Revised Version 1895

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 these things men live, and wholly therein is the life of my spirit: wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

18For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

Psalms 85:2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah

Psalms 88:4I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:

Psalms 103:4Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies:

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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