Isaiah 38:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 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 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{H8689)} my soul from the lowest hell.
• Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead{H8801)}, like the slain that lie{H8802)} in the grave, whom thou rememberest{H8804)} no more: and they are cut off{H8738)} from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid{H8804)} 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{H8686)} also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set{H8686)} my feet upon a rock, and established{H8790)} my goings.
• Ps 85:2 : 2 Thou hast forgiven{H8804)} the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered{H8765)} 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.