Isaiah 38:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

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

Transliteration

Behold to-šālôm mar-to-me mār and-you ḥāšaqtā napšî from-šaḥat bəlî for hišlaktā behind gēwkā all-ḥăṭāʾāy.

Grammar Details

• *šālôm*: masculine singular noun - peace
• *mar*: adjective, masculine singular - bitter
• *mār*: adjective, masculine singular - bitter
• *ḥāšaqtā*: qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have loved
• *napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
• *šaḥat*: feminine singular noun - pit
• *bəlî*: substantive - nothingness
• *hišlaktā*: hiphil perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have cast
• *gēwkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your back
• *ḥăṭāʾāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my sins

Word Meanings

• *šālôm*: peace, welfare, prosperity
• *mar*: bitter, bitterness
• *ḥāšaqtā*: you have loved, you have desired, you have delighted in
• *napšî*: my soul, my life, my self
• *šaḥat*: pit, corruption, destruction
• *bəlî*: nothingness, worthlessness, destruction
• *hišlaktā*: you have cast, you have thrown, you have flung
• *gēwkā*: your back, behind you

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.