Isaiah 38:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
  • Ps 30:3 : 3 O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. 7 Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
  • Ps 85:2 : 2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. {{Selah
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness. 19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • Ps 38:3-4
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    76%

    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

    4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

  • Isa 38:15-16
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    15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

    16O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

  • Ps 116:7-8
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    7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; For Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.

    8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears, [And] my feet from falling.

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    13For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

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    18He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; For they were many [that strove] with me.

  • Job 14:17
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    17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.

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    7I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;

  • Ps 25:17-18
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    17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring thou me out of my distresses.

    18Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

    21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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    26For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

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    58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

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    9Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.

  • Jer 18:23
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    23Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

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    10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

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    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Isa 38:18
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    18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • Ps 88:6
    72%

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; For I have sinned against thee.

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

    18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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    3O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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    13Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

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    4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)

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    72%

    14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

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    20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

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    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

  • Job 7:20
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    20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

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    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

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    8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

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    4Return, O Jehovah, deliver my soul: Save me for thy lovingkindness' sake.

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    22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.