Isaiah 38:16
Good News Translation
Lord, I will live for you, for you alone; Heal me and let me live.

New Revised Standard Version
O Lord, by these things people live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!

Contemporary English Version
Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me. Please make me healthy and strong again.

New American Bible
Those live whom the LORD protects; yours is the life of my spirit. You have given me health and restored my life!

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.

Isaiah 64:5 Thou hast met him that rejoiceth, and doth justice: in thy ways they shall remember thee: behold thou art angry, and we have sinned: in them we have been always, and we shall be saved.

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Job 33:19-28 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. . . .

Psalm 71:20 How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

Matthew 4:4 Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

1 Corinthians 11:32 But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

2 Corinthians 4:17 For that which is at present momentary and light of our tribulation worketh for us above measure, exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.

Hebrews 12:10,11 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. . . .

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
15What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 16O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.17Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:9
Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

Psalm 39:13
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 119:25
My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:71
It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

Psalm 119:75
I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

Isaiah 38:15
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