Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back.
New American Standard Bible
It is You who has
For You have
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.
International Standard Version
Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness;
But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction),
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, for peace bitterness, to me bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my soul from the pit of destruction: and thou didst cast all my sin behind my back
King James 2000
Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved my life from [the] pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back.
NET Bible
"Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness - bitterness, - But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
Themes
Corruption » Figurative » Of sin
Forgetting » What the lord will forget
hezekiah » King of judah » His psalm of thanksgiving
Hope » Who cannot hope for the truth of the lord
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Forgiving sin
Murmuring » Instances of » hezekiah
Pardon » Exemplified » hezekiah
Praise » Who does not praise the lord
Topics
Interlinear
Shalowm
Mar
Chashaq
Nephesh
Shalak
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 38:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hezekiah's Illness
16 O LORD, by these things men live, and wholly therein is the life of my spirit. Therefore recover thou me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 30:3
O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he who blots out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know LORD, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
Psalm 86:13
For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth with its bars [closed] upon me forever. Yet thou have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.
Job 3:25-26
For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me.
Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Psalm 10:2
In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
Psalm 30:6-7
As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
Psalm 40:2
He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalm 85:2
Thou have forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou have covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalm 88:4-6
I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,
Micah 7:18-19
Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.