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, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
• Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
• Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Ps 30:3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
• Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
• Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
• Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
• Ps 85:2You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
• Ps 30:6–7As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
• Job 3:25–26For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
• Ps 88:4–6I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
• Job 29:18Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house, I shall count my days as the sand.
• Ps 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

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