Isaiah 38:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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.

Isaiah 38:17 Cross References

Job 29:18

Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

Job 33:24

and he is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the Pit, I have found a ransom;

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.

Psalm 103:12

as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:3

who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

Psalm 103:4

who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,

Psalm 30:3

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.

Psalm 40:2

He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.

Psalm 85:2

Thou didst forgive the iniquity of thy people; thou didst pardon all their sin. Selah

Psalm 86:13

For great is thy steadfast love toward me; thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Isaiah 38:15

But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 43:25

“I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Jeremiah 31:34

And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Jonah 2:6

at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me for ever; yet thou didst bring up my life from the Pit, O Lord my God.

Jonah 2:7

When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer came to thee, into thy holy temple.