Isaiah 38:15-17

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¹⁵What can I say, so I tell myself,^[a]
since he has done this to me?^[b]
I will walk slowly all my years
because of my soul’s anguish.

¹⁶“My Lord is against them, yet they live,
    and among all of them who live is his spirit.^[c]
Now you have restored me to health,
    so let me live!
¹⁷Yes, it was for my own good
    that I suffered extreme anguish.^[d]
But in love you have held back^[e] my life
    from the Pit^[f] in which it has been confined;^[g]
you have tossed all my sins
    behind your back.

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Isaiah 38:15 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads for he has spoken to me
Isaiah 38:15 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads and it is he who has done it
Isaiah 38:16 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads is the life of my spirit
Isaiah 38:17 So 1QIsa^a; 1QIsa^b MT read bitter, bitter
Isaiah 38:17 So 1QIsa^a; cf. LXX; MT reads you have loved
Isaiah 38:17 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
Isaiah 38:17 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads pit of destruction

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Isaiah 38:15-17 International Standard Version

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Isaiah 38:15-17

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