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Isa 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

for peace I had great bitterness		or, on my peace came great bitterness. Job 3:25,26; Job 29:18; Psa 30:6,7
in love to my soul delivered it from the pit		Heb. loved my soul from the pit. Psa 30:3; Psa 40:2; Psa 86:13; Psa 88:4-6; Jon 2:6
thou hast cast		Isa 43:25; Psa 10:2; Psa 85:2; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:18,19

Correlating Passages

for peace I had great bitterness

	Job 3:25	For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
	Job 3:26	I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
	Job 29:18	Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.
	Psa 30:6	And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
	Psa 30:7	LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [and] I was troubled.

in love to my soul delivered it from the pit

	Psa 30:3	O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
	Psa 40:2	He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.
	Psa 86:13	For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
	Psa 88:4	I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:
	Psa 88:5	Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
	Psa 88:6	Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
	Jon 2:6	I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

thou hast cast

	Isa 43:25	I, [even] I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
	Psa 10:2	The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
	Psa 85:2	Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
	Jer 31:34	And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
	Mic 7:18	Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.
	Mic 7:19	He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 38:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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