Isaiah 38:17New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Lo, for [my own] welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— 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.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— 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.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— 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.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— 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.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 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.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, for peace I had great bitternesse, but thou hast in loue to my soule [deliuered] it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all [my] sins behind me.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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. |
Behold,
x2009 (2009) Complementהִנֵּהhinneh{hin-nay'}
Prolonged for H2005; lo!.
for peace
7965 {7965} Primeשָׁלוֹםshalowm{shaw-lome'}
From H7999; safe, that is, (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, that is, health, prosperity, peace.
I had great bitterness:
4751 {4751} Primeמַרmar{mar}
From H4843; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly.
4843 {4843} Primeמָרַרmarar{maw-rar'}
A primitive root; properly to trickle (see H4752); but used only as a denominative from H4751; to be (causatively make) bitter (literally or figuratively).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
but thou
x859 (0859) Complementאַתָּה'attah{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
hast in love
2836 {2836} Primeחָשַׁקchashaq{khaw-shak'}
A primitive root; to cling, that is, join (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically (or by interchange for H2820) to deliver.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
to my soul
5315 {5315} Primeנֶפֶשׁnephesh{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
[ delivered it] from the pit
7845 {7845} Primeשַׁחַתshachath{shakh'-ath}
From H7743; a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively destruction.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
of corruption:
1097 {1097} Primeבְּלִיb@liy{bel-ee'}
From H1086; properly failure, that is, nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
for
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
thou hast cast
7993 {7993} Primeשָׁלַךְshalak{shaw-lak'}
A primitive root; to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively).
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
all
x3605 (3605) Complementכֹּלkol{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
my sins
2399 {2399} Primeחֵטְאchet'{khate}
From H2398; a crime or its penalty.
behind
310 {0310} Primeאַחַר'achar{akh-ar'}
From H0309; properly the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjugation, after (in various senses).
thy back.
1460 {1460} Primeגֵּוgev{gave}
From H1342 (corresponding to H1354); the back; by analogy the middle. |
Isaiah 38:15-20
_ _ The second part of the song passes from prayer to thanksgiving at the prayer being heard.
_ _ What shall I say? — the language of one at a loss for words to express his sense of the unexpected deliverance.
_ _ both spoken ... and ... done it — (Numbers 23:19). Both promised and performed (1 Thessalonians 5:24; Hebrews 10:23).
_ _ himself — No one else could have done it (Psalms 98:1).
_ _ go softly ... in the bitterness — rather, “on account of the bitterness”; I will behave myself humbly in remembrance of my past sorrow and sickness from which I have been delivered by God’s mercy (see 1 Kings 21:27, 1 Kings 21:29). In Psalms 42:4, the same Hebrew verb expresses the slow and solemn gait of one going up to the house of God; it is found nowhere else, hence Rosenmuller explains it, “I will reverently attend the sacred festivals in the temple”; but this ellipsis would be harsh; rather metaphorically the word is transferred to a calm, solemn, and submissive walk of life.
Isaiah 38:17
_ _ for peace — instead of the prosperity which I had previously.
_ _ great bitterness — literally, “bitterness to me, bitterness”; expressing intense emotion.
_ _ in love — literally, “attachment,” such as joins one to another tenderly; “Thou hast been lovingly attached to me from the pit”; pregnant phrase for, Thy love has gone down to the pit, and drawn me out from it. The “pit” is here simply death, in Hezekiah’s sense; realized in its fullness only in reference to the soul’s redemption from hell by Jesus Christ (Isaiah 61:1), who went down to the pit for that purpose Himself (Psalms 88:4-6; Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12; Hebrews 13:20). “Sin” and sickness are connected (Psalms 103:3; compare Isaiah 53:4, with Matthew 8:17; Matthew 9:5, Matthew 9:6), especially under the Old Testament dispensation of temporal sanctions; but even now, sickness, though not invariably arising from sin in individuals, is connected with it in the general moral view.
_ _ cast ... behind back — consigned my sins to oblivion. The same phrase occurs (1 Kings 14:9; Nehemiah 9:26; Psalms 50:17). Contrast Psalms 90:8, “Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.” |
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for (s) 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 (t) sins behind thy back.
(s) While I thought to have lived in rest and ease being delivered from my enemy, I had grief upon grief.
(t) He values more the remission of his sins, and God's favour than a thousand lives. |
- for peace I had great bitterness:
- or, on my peace came great bitterness,
Job 3:25-26 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. ... I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.
Psalms 30:6-7 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. ... LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.
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- in love to my soul delivered it from the pit:
- Heb. loved my soul from the pit,
Psalms 30:3 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.
Psalms 40:2 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.
Psalms 86:13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms 88:4-6 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: ... Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Jonah 2:6 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.
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- thou hast cast:
Isaiah 43:25 I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Psalms 10:2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Jeremiah 31:34 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.
Micah 7:18-19 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. ... 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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