Isaiah 38:17

Hezekiah sees that his anguish was for his good, for God delivered his soul and cast all his sins behind his back. He links healing to the forgiveness of sins.

Cross-references · 13

• Isa 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
• Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• Ps 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
• Jer 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
• Ps 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
• Ps 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
• Ps 85:2You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
• Ps 30:6–7In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
• Job 3:25–26For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
• Ps 88:4–6I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
• Job 29:18So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
• Ps 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

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