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Verse Isaiah 38:17. _FOR PEACE I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS_ - "My anguish
is changed into ease"] מר לי מר _mar li mar_, "mutata mthi est
amaritudo." Paronomasia; a figure which the prophet frequently admi...
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BEHOLD, FOR PEACE - That is, instead of the health, happiness, and
prosperity which I had enjoyed, and which I hope still to enjoy.
I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS - Hebrew, ‘Bitterness to me, bitterness;’
an...
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CHAPTER 38
Hezekiah's Sickness and Healing
1. _Isaiah's startling message (Isaiah 38:1)_ 2. _Hezekiah's prayer
(Isaiah 38:2)_ 3. _The prayer heard and the sign (Isaiah 38:4)_ 4. The
king's sorrow and...
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ISAIAH 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2
Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an
exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with th...
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PIT OF CORRUPTION.. pit or corruption.
BEHIND THY BACK. Sins unforgiven are said to be "before His face"
(Psalms 109:14; Psalms 109:15.Jeremiah 16:17;...
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Hezekiah's thanksgiving for his recovery. This poem, which is not
given in the parallel narrative in 2 Kings, must have been inserted
here from an independent source. An external mark of the insertion...
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_Behold, for peace … bitterness_) (lit. "it was bitter to me,
bitter"), i.e. the bitterness of affliction was mercifully overruled
so as to yield "peaceable fruit" through his recovery (cf. Hebrews
12...
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DISCOURSE: 917
FORGIVENESS KNOWN AND ENJOYED
Isaiah 38:17. _Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast
in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou
hast cast all...
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BEHOLD, FOR PEACE I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS— That is to say, "When I
thought of, perceived, and feared no evil, and seemed to enjoy my
usual health, then this terrible evil came upon me: but thou hast
de...
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2. PRAISE
TEXT: Isaiah 38:9-20
9
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness.
10
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates o...
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The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
-The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not
in the parallel passages of 2...
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38:17 peace (i-4) Or 'for [my] peace.'...
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SICKNESS AND RECOVERY OF HEZEKIAH
Continuation of the historical appendix to Isaiah's prophecies. The
chapter is parallel to 2 Kings 20:1 (where see notes), but contains a
considerable addition in the...
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BEHOLD.. BITTERNESS] RV 'Behold it was for my peace that I had,' etc.
He sees on looking back that the chastisement had been for his good.
MY SINS] God's favour in restoration to health is viewed as a...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 38
HEZEKIAH IS SERIOUSLY ILL
V1 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. He believe...
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FOR PEACE I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS... — The words in the Authorised
Version read like a retrospect of the change from health to suffering.
Really, they express the very opposite. _It was for my peace_ ...
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הִנֵּ֥ה לְ שָׁלֹ֖ום מַר ־לִ֣י מָ֑ר וְ
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BOOK 4
JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB
701 B.C.
INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the
Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s
1, 22 and 33, wi...
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CHAPTER XI
DRIFTING TO EGYPT
720-705 13. B.C.
Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1
FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
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In this chapter we have the story of the sickness of Hezekiah. That
sickness would seem to have been intimately connected with the
invasion of Sennacherib, for in Isaiah's message to Hezekiah that his...
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Behold, for (s) peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to
my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast
all my (t) sins behind thy back.
(s) While I thought to ha...
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17._Lo, in peace ray bitterness was bitter. _(91) Again, another
circumstance aggravates the severity of the distress; for sudden and
unexpected calamities disturb us more than those which come upon u...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39.
Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its
result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...
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BEHOLD, FOR PEACE I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS,.... Meaning not that instead
of peace and prosperity, which he expected would ensue upon the
destruction of Sennacherib's army, came a bitter affliction upon...
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Behold, for peace I 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.
Ver. 17. _Behold, for peace I had...
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_Behold, for peace I had great bitterness_ “When I perceived and
feared no evil, and seemed to enjoy my usual health, then this
terrible evil came upon me.” The Hebrew, however, לשׁלום מר
לו מר, may b...
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Hezekiah's Hymn of Praise...
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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness, that is, unto deliverance
was bitterness for me, bitterness, what he considered the bitter
distress of death makes his deliverance stand out all the more
brig...
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FOR PEACE I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS:
Or, on my peace came great bitterness
THOU HAST IN LOVE TO MY SOUL DELIVERED IT FROM THE PIT:
_ Heb._ thou hast loved me from the pit...
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9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to
remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the
condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the
Lor...
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FOR PEACE I HAD GREAT BITTERNESS; my health and prosperity was quickly
changed into bitter sickness and affliction. Or, as others render it,
_my great bitterness was unto peace_; was turned into prosp...
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HEZEKIAH'S PSALM OF PRAISE (ISAIAH 38:9).
Isaiah 38:9
‘The writing of Hezekiah the king of Judah when he had been sick and
had recovered from his sickness.'
This was clearly originally a record on i...
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CONTENTS: Hezekiah's sickness and recovery in answer to prayer.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Hezekiah.
CONCLUSION: Neither men's greatness nor goodness will exempt them from
the arrests of sickness. If o...
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Isaiah 38:1. _Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not
live._ This burden of the Lord placed the prophet in a critical
situation. God saw that nothing milder than this harsh and tremendou...
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_Behold, for peace I had great bitterness_
HEZEKIAH’S RETURN OF PRAISE FOR HIS RECOVERY
I. A SAD, HEAVY AFFLICTION. “Behold, for peace,” &c. The
affliction is aggravated--
1. By a description of it...
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_The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah_
HEZEKIAH’S RECOVERY
1.
He was sick, and then he prayed.
2. He is recovered, and now he gives thanks. (_R. Harris, D. D._)
HEZEKIAH’S SONG
I. THE INSCRIPT...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 38:9 Hezekiah’s psalm is clear about this
truth: God alone has the power of life and death, and he prefers life.
⇐...
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HEZEKIAH’S RESOLUTION
(_A New-Year Motto_.)
Isaiah 38:15. _I shall go softly all my years, &c._
This resolution grows out of that singular experience of sickness and
recovery recorded in the precedin...
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HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER
Isaiah 38:1
In this narrative there are three points of difficulty and many points
of instruction.
I. THREE POINTS OF DIFFICULTY.
1. _Why was Hezekiah afraid to die?_ Answer:
(1.)...
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SECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN
(Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1.).
EXPOSITION
The present chapte
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In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set
your house in order: for you shall die, and not live (Isai...
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Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 31:34; Job 29:18; Job 3:25; Job 3:26;...