Parallel Verses
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
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.
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.
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.
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 Jehovah, upon these they shall live, and for all of these the life of my spirit: and thou wilt heal me and cause me to live. 17 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 18 For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 30:3
O Jehovah, thou broughtest up my soul from hades: thou didst save me alive from those going down to the pit
Isaiah 43:25
I, I am he wiping away thy transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more a man his neighbor and a man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they all shall know me to their small and even to their great, says Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and to their sin I will have no more remembrance
Psalm 86:13
For thy mercy is great upon me, and thou didst deliver my soul from hades below.
Jonah 2:6
I shall go down to the cuttings off of the mountains; the earth, her bars about me forever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Jehovah my God.
Job 3:25-26
For I feared a fear, and it will come upon me, and what I was afraid of will come to me.
Job 29:18
And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand.
Psalm 10:2
In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed.
Psalm 30:6-7
And I said in my security, I shall not be moved forever.
Psalm 40:2
And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.
Psalm 85:2
Thou didst lift up the iniquity of thy people, thou didst cover all their sin. Silence.
Psalm 88:4-6
I was reckoned with those going down to the pit: I was as a man of no strength:
Micah 7:18-19
Who is God as thee, lifting up iniquity and passing by transgression to the remnant of his inheritance? he held not his anger forever for he delighted in mercy.