KJV 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.
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Isaiah 38:17
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 38
14 Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 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.
17 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.
18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20 The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
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הִנֵּ֥הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdלְשָׁל֖וֹםH7965 · sha.lompeaceמַר־H4843 · ma.rarto provokeלִ֣יH9030 · nimeמָ֑רH4751 · marbitterוְאַתָּ֞הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)חָשַׁ֤קְתָּH2836 · cha.shaqto desireנַפְשִׁי֙H5315 · ne.pheshsoulמִשַּׁ֣חַתH7845 · sha.chatPit: hellבְּלִ֔יH1097 · be.liwithoutכִּ֥יH3588 · kiforהִשְׁלַ֛כְתָּH7993 · sha.lakhto throwאַחֲרֵ֥יH310 · a.charafterגֵוְךָ֖H1460 · gevbackכָּל־H3605 · kolallחֲטָאָֽי׃H2399 · chetsin
Cross-references
Isaiah 43:25I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.Micah 7:18-19Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.Jeremiah 31:34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.Psalm 30:3O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.Psalm 86:13For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.Psalm 30:6-7And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.Psalm 85:2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.Psalm 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.Job 3:25-26For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.Job 29:18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.Psalm 10:2The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.Psalm 88:4-6I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
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