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 delivered me, and freely forgiven me my sins." Thus Hezekiah does not claim exemption from guilt, but readily and humbly confesses that he deserved punishment, and was indebted solely to the divine mercy.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
38:17 peace (i-4) Or 'for [my] peace.'...
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...
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...
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...
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_ ...
הִנֵּ֥ה לְ שָׁלֹ֖ום מַר ־לִ֣י מָ֑ר וְ
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
Hezekiah's Hymn of Praise...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 38:17 peace H7965 bitterness H4751 H4843 (H8804) lovingly H2836 (H8804) soul H5315 pit H7845 corruption...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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. ⇐...
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...
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.)...
SECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN (Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1.). EXPOSITION The present chapte
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...
Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 31:34; Job 29:18; Job 3:25; Job 3:26;...