Isaiah 38:17

Conservative English Version

It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins.

Cross References

Job 29:18

I felt certain that I would live a long and happy life, then die in my own bed.

Job 33:24

The angel shows kindness, commanding death to release us, because the price was paid.

Psalm 10:2

Proud and brutal people hunt down the poor. But let them get caught by their own evil plans!

Psalm 103:12

How far has the LORD taken our sins from us? Farther than the distance from east to west!

Psalm 103:3

The LORD forgives our sins, heals us when we are sick,

Psalm 103:4

and protects us from death. His kindness and love are a crown on our heads.

Psalm 30:3

saving me from death and the grave.

Psalm 40:2

and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm,

Psalm 55:23

But what about those people who are cruel and brutal? You will throw them down into the deepest pit long before their time. I trust you, LORD!

Psalm 85:2

You have forgiven the sin and taken away the guilt of your people.

Psalm 86:13

Your love for me is so great that you protected me from death and the grave.

Isaiah 38:15

There's nothing I can say in answer to you, since you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour; I will limp until I die.

Isaiah 43:25

But I wipe away your sins because of who I am. And so, I will forget the wrongs you have done.

Jeremiah 31:34

"No longer will they have to teach one another to obey me. I, the LORD, promise that all of them will obey me, ordinary people and rulers alike. I will forgive their sins and forget the evil things they have done."

Jonah 2:6

I had sunk down below the underwater mountains; I knew that forever, I would be a prisoner there. But, you, LORD God, rescued me from that pit.

Jonah 2:7

When my life was slipping away, I remembered you-- and in your holy temple you heard my prayer.