Isaiah 38:17

“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.”

"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." - Isaiah 38:17
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What does Isaiah 38:17 mean?

Isaiah 38:17 in the KJV sits inside King Hezekiah’s personal record of what it felt like to be brought down to the edge of death and then raised up again by the word of the LORD. The chapter is not written as abstract theology but as testimony. Hezekiah had been told by Isaiah…

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From Bitterness to Peace: A Journey of Redemption

In the sacred text of Isaiah 38:17, we encounter a profound revelation of the human experience—a painful juxtaposition of bitterness and the redeeming power of divine love. The verse reads: "Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it…

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A Prayer for Divine Peace and Deliverance

O Lord, our Heavenly Father, We come before You with hearts full of gratitude and reverence, seeking Your presence in our lives. In the tangled web of our existence, we often find ourselves ensnared by worries, fears, and the bitterness of the past. As Your servant Isaiah so…

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Isaiah 38:17
Isaiah 38:17 - "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."
Isaiah 38:4 - "¶ Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,"
"¶ Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying," - Isaiah 38:4
Isaiah 38:21 - "For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover."
1 Samuel 17:38-40
Isaiah 38:2 - "Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,"
Psalms 38:17 - "For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me."
Isaiah 38:16-17 - "O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live! Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back."
Isaiah 38:6 - "And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city."
Isaiah 38:9 - "¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:"
Isaiah 38:22 - "Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"
Isaiah 38:7 - "And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;"
Job 38:17 - "Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?"
Isaiah 38:18 - "For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth."
Isaiah 38:1 - "In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live."
Isaiah 54:17
Isaiah 54:17
Isaiah 38:19 - "The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth."
2 Kings 17:38 - "And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods."
Isaiah 38:11 - "I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world."
Isaiah 38:20 - "The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD."
Isaiah 38:10 - "I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years."
Isaiah 38:16 - "O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live."
Exodus 38:17 - "And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver."
"For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover." - Isaiah 38:21
1 Samuel 17:38 - "¶ And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail."
Genesis 38:17 - "And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?"
"Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD," - Isaiah 38:2