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Isaiah 38:16-18
International Standard Version
Isaiah 38:16-18
International Standard Version
16 “My Lord is against them, yet they live,
and among all of them who live is his spirit.[a]
Now you have restored me to health,
so let me live!
17 Yes, it was for my own good
that I suffered extreme anguish.[b]
But in love you have held back[c] my life
from the Pit[d] in which it has been confined;[e]
you have tossed all my sins
behind your back.
18 For Sheol[f] cannot thank you,
death cannot[g] sing your praise;
and[h] those who go down to the Pit[i] cannot hope
for your faithfulness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads is the life of my spirit
- Isaiah 38:17 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read bitter, bitter
- Isaiah 38:17 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads you have loved
- Isaiah 38:17 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
- Isaiah 38:17 So 1QIsaa; MT reads pit of destruction
- Isaiah 38:18 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
- Isaiah 38:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; implied in 1QIsab MT
- Isaiah 38:18 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 38:18 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
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