Isaiah 38:17

World English Bible (2000)

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 43:25 : 25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
  • Jer 31:34 : 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: 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 barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
  • Ps 30:3 : 3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, 5 set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
  • Job 3:25-26 : 25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me. 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."
  • Job 29:18 : 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." 7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
  • Ps 40:2 : 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
  • Ps 85:2 : 2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness. 19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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    17You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

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    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

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

  • Isa 38:15-16
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    15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

    16Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

  • Ps 116:7-8
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    7Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

    8For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

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    13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

  • Ps 55:18
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    18He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

  • Job 14:17
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    17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

  • Ps 31:7
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    7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

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

    18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

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

    21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

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    58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

  • Ps 51:9
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    9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

  • Jer 18:23
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    23Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

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    10Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has 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 on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Isa 38:18
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    18For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

  • Ps 88:6
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    6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

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

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    3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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    13Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

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    14Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

  • Ps 51:4
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    4Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Ps 32:5
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    5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

  • Jer 18:20
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    20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

  • Jonah 2:6
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    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • Job 7:20
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    20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • Jer 4:18
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    18"Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

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    2You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

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    12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

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    24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 38:8-9
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    8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

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    4Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness' sake.

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    18Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

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    40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

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    22As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.