Isaiah 38:16
Isaiah chapter 38 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
KJV
King James Version · 1611O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
Context
v.15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
v.16This passage
v.17Behold, it wasformypeacethatI 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 64:5
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved?
- Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
- Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
- Job 33:19
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
- Psalms 71:20
Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
- Matthew 4:4
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.