Isaiah 38:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
  • Ps 30:3 : 3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled. 26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. 7 Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
  • Ps 85:2 : 2 The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. 19 He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

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    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Ps 38:3-4
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    76%

    3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

    4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

  • Isa 38:15-16
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    75%

    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

    16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.

  • Ps 116:7-8
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    75%

    7 Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.

    8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

  • Ps 86:13
    75%

    13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

  • Ps 55:18
    74%

    18 He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

  • Job 14:17
    74%

    17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

  • Ps 31:7
    74%

    7 I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

  • Ps 25:17-18
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    73%

    17 The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

    18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    73%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Job 13:26
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    26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • Lam 3:58
    73%

    58 O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.

  • Ps 51:9
    73%

    9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

  • Jer 18:23
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    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Ps 102:10
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    10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Isa 38:18
    73%

    18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

  • Ps 88:6
    72%

    6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • Ps 41:4
    72%

    4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

    18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

  • Ps 30:3
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    3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

  • Ps 9:13
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    13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

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    72%

    4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

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    72%

    14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

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    72%

    4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

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    71%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Ps 32:5
    71%

    5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

  • Jer 18:20
    71%

    20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

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    71%

    6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Job 7:20
    71%

    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • Jer 4:18
    71%

    18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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    71%

    2 The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

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    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

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    71%

    24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

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    71%

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

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    2 verses
    71%

    8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

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    4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

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    18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

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    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

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    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.