Isaiah 38:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 38:17

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.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold, for peace - That is, instead of the health, happiness, and prosperity which I had enjoyed, and which I hope still to enjoy. I had great bitterness - Hebrew, ‘Bitterness to me, bitterness;’ an emphatic expression, denoting intense sorrow. But thou hast in love to my soul - Margin, ‘Loved my soul from the pit.’ The word which occurs here (חשׁקת châshaqtâ) denotes properly to join or fasten together; then to be attached to anyone; to be united tenderly; to embrace. Here it means that God had loved him, and had thus delivered his soul from death.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The New Park Street Pulpit, Sermon No. 316: “A Sense of Pardoned Sin” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1860)

HEZEKIAH HERE SPEAKS POSITIVELY on a matter concerning which he had not the remotest shadow of n doubt. He kind trusted his God, he had cast himself upon the merit of the promised Messiah, and as the result of that faith, assurance had been granted to him, and he now sings with unfaltering tongue, "Thou," even thou, O God, Most High and Most Just, "thou hast cast all my sins," great and innumerable though they be, thou hast east them all "behind thy back."

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1337: “Love's Medicines and Miracles” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1877)

HEZEKIAH'S recovery is a notable encouragement to prayer. If ever there was a case in the world where it seemed impossible that prayer could be of any use, it was that of Hezekiah. It was perceivable by everybody around him that he was sick unto death. Why, then, think of prayer? The case was fatal. Would it not expose prayer to derision if such a matter were taken before the Mercy Seat? Moreover, God's own Word, spoken by His servant the Prophet, had been given—"Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live."

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֥ה	hi.Neh	here!	H2009 →
לְשָׁל֖וֹם	le.sha.Lom	for welfare	H7965 →
מַר־	mar-	it was bitter	H4843 →
לִ֣י	li	to me
מָ֑ר	Mar	bitterly	H4751 →
וְאַתָּ֞ה	ve.'a.Tah	and you	H859 →
חָשַׁ֤קְתָּ	cha.Shak.ta	you loved	H2836 →
נַפְשִׁי֙	naf.Shi	life my	H5315 →
מִשַּׁ֣חַת	mi.Sha.chat	from [the] pit of	H7845 →
בְּלִ֔י	be.Li	destruction	H1097 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
הִשְׁלַ֛כְתָּ	hish.Lakh.ta	you threw away	H7993 →
אַחֲרֵ֥י	'a.cha.Rei	behind	H310 →
גֵוְךָ֖	ge.ve.Kha	back your	H1460 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
חֲטָאָֽי׃	cha.ta.'Ai	sins my	H2399 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
leads to
- Hebrews 8:12
  For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Micah 7:18–19
  Who 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?
- Hebrews 10:17
  Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
- Jeremiah 31:34
  No 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…
- Isaiah 1:18
  “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
Through
Jeremiah 31:34
No 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…
leads to
- Isaiah 43:25
  I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Jeremiah 33:8
  And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- Isaiah 54:13
  Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah