Isaiah 38:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 O Lord, [a]to them that overlive them, and to all that are in them, the life of my spirit shall be known, that thou causest me to [b]sleep and hast given life to me.
17 Behold, for [c]felicity I had bitter grief, but it was thy pleasure to deliver my soul from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my [d]sins behind thy back.
18 For [e]the grave cannot confess thee: death cannot praise thee: they that go down into the pit, cannot hope for thy truth.
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- Isaiah 38:16 They that shall overlive the men that are now alive, and all they that are in these years shall acknowledge this benefit.
- Isaiah 38:16 That after that thou hadst condemned me to death thou restoredst me to life.
- Isaiah 38:17 Whereas I thought to have lived in rest and ease being delivered from mine enemy, I had grief upon grief.
- Isaiah 38:17 He esteemeth more the remission of his sins, and God’s favor than a thousand lives.
- Isaiah 38:18 Forasmuch as God hath placed man in this world to glorify him, the godly take it as a sign of his wrath, when their days were shortened, either because that they seemed unworthy for their sins to live longer in his service, or for their zeal to God’s glory, seeing that there are so few in earth that do regard it, as Ps. 6:5; 115:17.
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