“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my nest, and multiply my days like the sand.
Isaiah 38:17 - Tree of Life Version Behold, it was for my own shalom that I had great bitterness. You have loved my soul out of the Pit of destruction! For You have flung all my sins behind Your back. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
“Then I thought, ‘I will die in my nest, and multiply my days like the sand.
then He is gracious to him, and says ‘Deliver him from going down to the Pit— I have found a ransom;’
In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
He redeems your life from the Pit. He crowns you with lovingkindness and compassions.
Cast your burden on Adonai, and He will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Adonai, will you favor Your land? Will You restore Jacob from captivity?
For great is Your lovingkindness toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest part of Sheol.
What should I say? For He has spoken to me— He Himself has done it! I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
I, I am the One who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Thus says Adonai, who gives the sun as a light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars as a light by night, who stirs up the sea so its waves roar, Adonai-Tzva’ot is His Name:
Waters surrounded me up to my soul. The deep sea engulfed me— reeds clung to my head.
To the bottoms of the mountains I went down. The earth with her bars was around me, forever! Yet You brought my life up from the Pit, Adonai my God.