So I thought, ‘I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.
Isaiah 38:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such intense bitterness; but your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for you have thrown all my sins behind your back. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, it was for my peace that I had intense bitterness; but You have loved back my life from the pit of corruption and nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Look, he indeed exchanged my bitterness for wholeness. You yourself have spared my whole being from the pit of destruction, because you have cast all my sins behind your back. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, in peace is my bitterness most bitter. But thou best delivered my soul that it should not perish: thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. |
So I thought, ‘I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.
and to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found a ransom,’
What can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk along slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
‘I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more.
No longer will one teach his neighbour or his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,” for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration. ‘For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin.
I sank to the foundations of the mountains, the earth’s gates shut behind me for ever! Then you raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!
As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.