Isaiah 38:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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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 will not remember thy sins.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
  • Jonah 2:6 : 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
  • Ps 30:3 : 3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: 5 Free 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 darkness, in the deeps.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
  • 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 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 ¶ And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. 7 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and 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 by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; 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.

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    76%

    3[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

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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 in the bitterness of my soul.

    16O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

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    7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

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    74%

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    17My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

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    7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

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    17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses.

    18Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine 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 called, and they shall be like unto me.

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    26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess 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, LORD, 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 [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.

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    10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13From above 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 wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.

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    72%

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

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    4I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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    17For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

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    72%

    3O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Ps 9:13
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    13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

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    72%

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    72%

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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    71%

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

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