Isaiah 38:17 “Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has…”

Isaiah 38:17

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.

Darby Translation

Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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.

Bible in Basic English

See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

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Cross references

“for peace I had great bitterness”

Job 29:18 Job 3:25 Job 3:26 Psalm 30:6 Psalm 30:7

Job 29:18 · BSB

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Job 3:25 · BSB

For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

Job 3:26 · BSB

I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

Psalm 30:6 · BSB

In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”

Psalm 30:7 · BSB

O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

“in love to my soul delivered it from the pit”

Jonah 2:6 Psalm 30:3 Psalm 86:13 Psalm 40:2 Psalm 88:4–6

Jonah 2:6 · BSB

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

Psalm 30:3 · BSB

O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

Psalm 86:13 · BSB

For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Psalm 40:2 · BSB

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalm 88:4–6 · BSB

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

“thou hast cast”

Isaiah 43:25 Jeremiah 31:34 Psalm 85:2 Psalm 10:2 Micah 7:18 Micah 7:19

Isaiah 43:25 · BSB

I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Jeremiah 31:34 · BSB

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will r…

Psalm 85:2 · BSB

You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah

Psalm 10:2 · BSB

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Micah 7:18 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Micah 7:19 · BSB

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

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