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Isaiah 38

Isa. 38:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, ψfor peace
shalowm (Hebrew #7965)
from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
KJV usage: X do, familiar, X fare, favour, + friend, X great, (good) health, (X perfect, such as be at) peace(-able, -ably), prosper(-ity, -ous), rest, safe(-ty), salute, welfare, (X all is, be) well, X wholly.
Pronounce: shaw-lome'
Origin: or shalom {shaw-lome'}
I had great bitterness
marar (Hebrew #4843)
properly, to trickle (see 4752); but used only as a denominative from 4751; to be (causatively, make) bitter (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (be, be in, deal, have, make) bitter(-ly, - ness), be moved with choler, (be, have sorely, it) grieved(-eth), provoke, vex.
Pronounce: maw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
mar (Hebrew #4751)
from 4843; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
KJV usage: + angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, X great, heavy.
Pronounce: mar
Origin: or (feminine) marah {maw-raw'}
: but thou hast βin love
chashaq (Hebrew #2836)
to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically (or by interchangeable for 2820) to deliver
KJV usage: have a delight, (have a ) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love.
Pronounce: khaw-shak'
Origin: a primitive root
to my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
delivered it from the pit
shachath (Hebrew #7845)
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
KJV usage: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Pronounce: shakh'-ath
Origin: from 7743
o of corruption
bliy (Hebrew #1097)
properly, failure, i.e. nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
KJV usage: corruption, ig(norantly), for lack of, where no...is, so that no, none, not, un(awares), without.
Pronounce: bel-ee'
Origin: from 1086
: for thou hast cast
shalak (Hebrew #7993)
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
Pronounce: shaw-lak
Origin: a primitive root
all my sins
chet' (Hebrew #2399)
a crime or its penalty
KJV usage: fault, X grievously, offence, (punishment of) sin.
Pronounce: khate
Origin: from 2398
behind
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
thy back
gev (Hebrew #1460)
the back; by analogy, the middle
KJV usage: + among, back, body.
Pronounce: gave
Origin: from 1342 (corresponding to 1354)
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for peace I had great bitterness.
or, on my peace came greatbitterness.
in love to my soul delivered it from the pit.
Heb. loved mysoul from the pit.
thou hast cast.
 It expresses what unconverted folk have sometimes found, as well as saints, when deeply tried or near to death. Hezekiah did not then concern himself with “my kingdom”, or “my wealth”, but “my soul”. He also become conscious of “my sins”, and that there was a “pit of corruption” into which his sins threatened to cast his soul. This must have been a very acute spiritual experience for him; and so it is equally for us.11 F.B.Hole, Isaiah, n.d. God does not move in circles but rather straight forward through the eternal ages, what He casts behind His back is there forever, and not as He said to Ephraim in Hosea 7:2, “before My face.” (Isaiah 38-39 by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, instead of peacei I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "for [my] peace."