Isaiah 38:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.”
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“Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, it wasformypeacethatI 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 · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 38:17 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
- Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalms 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
- Psalms 30:6In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
- Psalms 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
- Psalms 85:2You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
- Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Psalms 88:4I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
- Psalms 103:3He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Psalms 103:4who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
- Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Jeremiah 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
- Jonah 2:7As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
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