Isaiah 38:17-18 New English Translation
17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit.[a]
You delivered me[b] from the Pit of oblivion.[c]
For you removed all my sins from your sight.[d]
18 Indeed[e] Sheol does not give you thanks;
death does not[f] praise you.
Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:17 tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”
- Isaiah 38:17 tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).
- Isaiah 38:17 tn בְּלִי (beli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”
- Isaiah 38:17 tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”
- Isaiah 38:18 tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
- Isaiah 38:18 tn The negative particle is understood by ellipsis in this line. See GKC 483 §152.z.
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