Isaiah 38:16

Lord, if men liveth so, (or Lord, if people so liveth), and the life of my spirit is in such things, (then) thou shalt chastise me, and shalt quicken me.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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, either what shall he answer to me, when he hath done (this)? I shall bethink to thee all my years, in the bitterness of my soul. (what shall I say, or what shall he answer to me, when he himself hath done this? I shall think about thee all my years, in the bitterness of my soul.)

17Lo! my bitterness is most bitter in peace, (or Behold! peace was my bitterness, and it (was) most bitter); forsooth thou hast delivered my soul, that it perished not; thou hast cast away behind thy back all my sins.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:3And he tormented thee with neediness, and he gave to thee meat, manna to eat, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not, that he should show to thee, that a man liveth not in bread alone, but in each word that cometh out of the Lord’s mouth. (And so he humbled thee with neediness, or with want, and he gave thee food, manna to eat, which thou knewest not, nor thy fathers knew, to show thee, that a man liveth not by bread alone, but by each word that cometh out of the mouth of the Lord.)

Psalms 30:3Lord, thou leddest out my soul from hell; thou savedest me from them that go down into the pit. (Lord, thou hast led me up from Sheol, or the land of the dead; thou hast pulled me out from among those who go down into the pit.)

Psalms 119:25[Daleth.] My soul cleaved to the pavement; quicken thou me by thy word. (My body lieth on the ground or lieth in the dust; grant thou me life according to thy word.)

Matthew 4:4Which answered, and said to him, It is written, Not only in bread liveth man, but in each word that cometh forth of God’s mouth. [The which answering said to him, It is written, A man liveth not in bread alone, but in every word that cometh forth from the mouth of God.]

2 Corinthians 4:17But that light, [or easy], thing of our tribulation that lasteth now, but as it were by a moment, worketh in us over-measure an everlasting burden [or an everlasting weight] into the highness of glory;

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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