New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 38:14-19

14 1Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I 2moan like a dove; My 3eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my 4security.

15“5What shall I say? 6For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will 7wander about all my years because of the 8bitterness of my soul.16O Lord, 9by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; 10 11O restore me to health and 12let me live!17Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has 13 14kept my soul from the pit of 15nothingness, For You have 16cast all my sins behind Your back.18For 17Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down 18to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.19It is the 19living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A 20father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 38:14 Job 30:29; Ps 102:6 ↩
2. Isaiah 38:14 Is 59:11; Ezek 7:16; Nah 2:7 ↩
3. Isaiah 38:14 Ps 119:123 ↩
4. Isaiah 38:14 Job 17:3; Ps 119:122 ↩
5. Isaiah 38:15 Ps 39:9 ↩
6. Isaiah 38:15 Targum and DSS read And what shall I say for He ↩
7. Isaiah 38:15 1 Kin 21:27 ↩
8. Isaiah 38:15 Job 7:11; 10:1; Is 38:17 ↩
9. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 119:71, 75 ↩
10. Isaiah 38:16 Lit You will ↩
11. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 39:13 ↩
12. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 119:25 ↩
13. Isaiah 38:17 So some versions; Heb loved ↩
14. Isaiah 38:17 Ps 30:3; 86:13; Jon 2:6 ↩
15. Isaiah 38:17 Or destruction ↩
16. Isaiah 38:17 Is 43:25; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:19 ↩
17. Isaiah 38:18 Ps 6:5; 30:9; 88:11; Eccl 9:10 ↩
18. Isaiah 38:18 Num 16:33; Ps 28:1 ↩
19. Isaiah 38:19 Ps 118:17; 119:175 ↩
20. Isaiah 38:19 Deut 6:7; 11:19; Ps 78:5-7 ↩

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