Isaiah 38:17

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

Behold, for my wellbeing great bitterness was unto me; and You have held back my soul from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast behind Your back all my sins.

Latin

Ecce in pace amaritudo mea amarissima. Tu autem eruisti animam meam ut non periret; projecisti post tergum tuum omnia peccata mea.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Isaiah 38:9–20

Hezekiah’s poem includes both lament (Isaiah 38:9–14) and praise (38:15–20). The praise remains restrained until the final verse.

Theme notes and profiles

Hezekiah Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiah

Related verses

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
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?
Jonah 2:6
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
Psalm 30:3
O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
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 will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
Psalm 86:13
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
Psalm 40:2
He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
Psalm 85:2
You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
Job 3:25–26
For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
Psalm 30:6–7
In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Psalm 88:4–6
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
Psalm 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Glossary

Forgiveness Hell Hezekiah History of Israel Inscriptions Isaiah, Book of Kings, Books of First and Second Miracle Pit

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Corruption of Sin God: Love of Hezekiah: King of Judah: His Psalm of Thanksgiving Life: from God Murmuring: Hezekiah Pardon: Hezekiah Psalms of Hezekiah, Celebrating Deliverance from Death Repentance: Exemplified Sickness: God: Exhibits his Love in Healing The Love of God: Exhibited in Forgiving Sin

Isaiah 38:17

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