Isaiah 38:17

Isaiah 38:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Context of Isaiah 38:17

15“What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will walk quietly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 16Lord, by these things people live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; Restore me to health and let me live! Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; But You have kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have hurled all my sins behind Your back. 18For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. 19It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:17 word by word

הִנֵּ֥ה לְשָׁל֖וֹם מַר־לִ֣י מָ֑ר וְאַתָּ֞ה חָשַׁ֤קְתָּ נַפְשִׁי֙ מִשַּׁ֣חַת בְּלִ֔י כִּ֥י הִשְׁלַ֛כְתָּ אַחֲרֵ֥י גֵוְךָ֖ כָּל־חֲטָאָֽי׃Read the interlinear

• Beholdהִנֵּהhinnêh · beholdH2009
• welfareשָׁלוֹםshâlôm shâlôm · peace: well-beingH7965
• I had greatמַרmar mârâh · bitterH4751
• keptחָשַׂךְchâώak · to withholdH2820
• my soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: lifeH5315
• from the pitשַׁ֫חַתshachath · Pit: hellH7845
• nothingnessבְּלִיbelîy · withoutH1097
• hurledשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
• allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• my sinsחֵטְאchêţ' · sinH2399
• behindאַחַר'achar · afterH310
• Your backגֵּוgêv · backH1460

Cross-references for Isaiah 38:17

• Job 3:25For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread encounters me.
• Job 29:18Then I thought, ‘I will die with my family, And I will multiply my days as the sand.
• Psalms 30:6Now as for me, I said in my prosperity, “I will never be moved.”
• Psalms 30:3Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.
• Psalms 40:2He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm.
• Psalms 86:13For Your graciousness toward me is great, And You have saved my soul from the depths of Sheol.
• Psalms 88:4I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,
• Jonah 2:6I descended to the base of the mountains. The earth with its bars was around me forever, But You have brought up my life from the pit, Lord my God.
• Isaiah 43:25“I, I alone, am the one who wipes out your wrongdoings for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.
• Psalms 10:2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the needy; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
• Psalms 85:2You forgave the guilt of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
• Jeremiah 31:34They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”
• Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons wrongdoing And passes over a rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

Commentaries on Isaiah 38:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17For peace I had great bitterness "My anguish is changed into ease" - מר לי מר mar li mar, "mutata mthi est amaritudo." Paronomasia; a figure which the prophet frequently admits. I do not always note it, because it cannot ever be preserved in the translation, and the sense seldom depends upon it. But here it perfectly clears up the great obscurity of the passage. See Lowth on the place. Thou hast rescued - חשכת chashachta, with כ caph, instead of ק koph…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-22Verses 9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust committed to our charge, as the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-20Hezekiah’s poem includes both lament (Isaiah 38:9–14) and praise (38:15–20). The praise remains restrained until the final verse.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-209-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 38:17

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Corruption
• God Continued...
• Hezekiah
• Life
• Murmuring
• Psalms
• Repentance

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Commentaries on Isaiah 38

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings