Verse 17
Isaiah 38:17
World English Bible, British Edition
17
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנֵּ֥ה לְ/שָׁל֖וֹם מַר לִ֣/י מָ֑ר וְ/אַתָּ֞ה חָשַׁ֤קְתָּ נַפְשִׁ/י֙ מִ/שַּׁ֣חַת בְּלִ֔י כִּ֥י הִשְׁלַ֛כְתָּ אַחֲרֵ֥י גֵוְ/ךָ֖ כָּל חֲטָאָֽ/י
English Translation
Behold, for peace is bitter to me, and you have desired my soul from destruction, for you have cast away my sins after your body.
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Chapter 38 Context
1
In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz, came to him, an...
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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
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and said, “Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before
you in truth and with a perfe...
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4
Then the LORD’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
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“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The LORD, the God (Elohim) of David your father, says,
“I have heard your p...
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6
I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria,
and I will defend this city...
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7
This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this
thing that he has spoken.
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8
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on
the sundial of Ahaz with the...
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9
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and had recovered of his sickness:
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10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.
I am deprived of the residue of my y...
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11
I said, “I won’t see the LORD,
The LORD in the land of the living.
I will see man no more with the i...
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12
My dwelling is removed,
and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life...
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13
I waited patiently until morning.
He breaks all my bones like a lion.
From day even to night you wil...
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14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
I moaned like a dove.
My eyes weaken looking upward.
Lord, I...
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15
What will I say?
He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
I will walk carefully all my yea...
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16
Lord, men live by these things;
and my spirit finds life in all of them.
You restore me, and cause m...
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17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of...
18
For Sheol can’t praise you.
Death can’t celebrate you.
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for...
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The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.
The father shall make known your truth t...
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20
The LORD will save me.
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our...
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21
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay
it for a poultice on the boil, and he sh...
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22
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the
LORD’s house?”
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