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You restored me to health and let me live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/38.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Lord, your discipline is good, for it leads to life and health. You restore my health and allow me to live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/38.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/38.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/38.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />O Lord, by these <i>things men</i> live, and in all these <i>things is</i> the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/38.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />O Lord, by these <i>things men</i> live; And in all these <i>things is</i> the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/38.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Lord, by <i>these</i> things <i>people</i> live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; Restore me to health and let me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/38.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220O Lord, by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/38.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“O Lord, by <i>these</i> things <i>men</i> live; And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health, and let me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/38.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />O Lord, by <i>these</i> things <i>men</i> live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/38.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“O Lord, by <i>these</i> things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; Restore me to health and let me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/38.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Lord, by such things people live, and in every one of them my spirit finds life; you have restored me to health and let me live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/38.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Lord, because of these promises people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well; You have restored me to health and let me live. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/38.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/38.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me. Please make me healthy and strong again. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/38.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />O Lord, by these things men live, and wholly therein is the life of my spirit: wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/38.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Lord, people live in spite of such things, and I have the will to live in spite of them. You give me health and keep me alive.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/38.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Lord, I will live for you, for you alone; Heal me and let me live. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/38.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"My Lord is against them, yet they live, and among all of them who live is his spirit. Now you have restored me to health, so let me live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/38.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/38.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.' <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/38.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/38.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/38.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/38.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Lord, [men] live by these, "" And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, "" And You save me, make me to also live,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/38.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Lord, by these do men live, And by all in them is the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/38.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />O Jehovah, upon these they shall live, and for all of these the life of my spirit: and thou wilt heal me and cause me to live.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/38.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/38.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />O Lord, if such is life, and if the life of my spirit is of such a kind, may you correct me and may you cause me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/38.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Those live whom the LORD protects; yours is the life of my spirit. You have given me health and restored my life! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/38.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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!<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/38.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Behold, it was for peace that I had great bitterness; but thou hast been pleased with my soul, that it may not waste in corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/38.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />LORD JEHOVAH, shall we live by these things? For the sake of this life of my spirit, heal me and give me life!<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/38.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />O Lord, by these things men live, And altogether therein is the life of my spirit; Wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/38.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br /><i>Yea</i>, O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/38-16.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=8262" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/38.htm">Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/136.htm" title="136: ’ă·ḏō·nāy (N-proper-ms) -- Lord. Am emphatic form of 'adown; the Lord.">O Lord,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">by such things</a> <a href="/hebrew/2421.htm" title="2421: yiḥ·yū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To live, to revive. A primitive root; to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.">men live,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ū·lə·ḵāl- (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">and in all</a> <a href="/hebrew/bā·hen (Prep:: 3fp) -- ">of them</a> <a href="/hebrew/7307.htm" title="7307: rū·ḥî (N-csc:: 1cs) -- Breath, wind, spirit. From ruwach; wind; by resemblance breath.">my spirit</a> <a href="/hebrew/2416.htm" title="2416: ḥay·yê (N-mpc) -- Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life. From chayah; alive; hence, raw; fresh, strong; also life, whether literally or figuratively.">finds life.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2492.htm" title="2492: wə·ṯa·ḥă·lî·mê·nî (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjImperf-2ms:: 1cs) -- To bind firmly, to be, plump, to dream. A primitive root; properly, to bind firmly, i.e. to be plump; also to dream.">You have restored me to health</a> <a href="/hebrew/2421.htm" title="2421: wə·ha·ḥă·yê·nî (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-Imp-ms:: 1cs) -- To live, to revive. A primitive root; to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive.">and have let me live.</a> </span><span class="reftext">17</span>Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/119-50.htm">Psalm 119:50</a></span><br />This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/71-20.htm">Psalm 71:20</a></span><br />Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/30-2.htm">Psalm 30:2-3</a></span><br />O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me. / O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/103-3.htm">Psalm 103:3-4</a></span><br />He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases, / who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/20-5.htm">2 Kings 20:5</a></span><br />“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/33-24.htm">Job 33:24-25</a></span><br />to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’ / then his flesh is refreshed like a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/116-8.htm">Psalm 116:8-9</a></span><br />For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. / I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/118-17.htm">Psalm 118:17</a></span><br />I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-9.htm">2 Corinthians 1:9-10</a></span><br />Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. / He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/5-21.htm">John 5:21</a></span><br />For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/8-11.htm">Romans 8:11</a></span><br />And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/4-10.htm">2 Corinthians 4:10-11</a></span><br />We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. / For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/2-24.htm">1 Peter 2:24</a></span><br />He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/5-15.htm">James 5:15</a></span><br />And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-22.htm">Matthew 9:22</a></span><br />Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that very hour.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me, and make me to live.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/64-5.htm">Isaiah 64:5</a></b></br> Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, <i>those that</i> remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a></b></br> And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every <i>word</i> that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/33-19.htm">Job 33:19-28</a></b></br> He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong <i>pain</i>: … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/27-4.htm">Altogether</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/songs/8-10.htm">Finds</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-10.htm">Health</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-1.htm">Live</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-11.htm">Recover</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm">Recovered</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-26.htm">Restore</a> <a href="/psalms/126-1.htm">Restored</a> <a href="/psalms/36-6.htm">Savest</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-8.htm">Therein</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-2.htm">Waiting</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-4.htm">Wherefore</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm">Wholly</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/5-5.htm">Altogether</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-27.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-3.htm">Finds</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-8.htm">Health</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm">Live</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-21.htm">Recover</a> <a href="/isaiah/39-1.htm">Recovered</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-17.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-22.htm">Restore</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm">Restored</a> <a href="/micah/6-14.htm">Savest</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-7.htm">Spirit</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-5.htm">Therein</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-31.htm">Waiting</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-10.htm">Wherefore</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-21.htm">Wholly</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-5.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 38</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/38-1.htm">Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm">The sun goes ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm">His song of thanksgiving.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/38.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/38.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>O Lord, by such things men live</b><br>This phrase acknowledges God's sovereignty and the sustaining power of His word and promises. In the context of <a href="/isaiah/38.htm">Isaiah 38</a>, King Hezekiah is reflecting on his recovery from a terminal illness. The "such things" likely refer to God's interventions and decrees, which are essential for life. Biblically, this aligns with <a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a>, where it is stated that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. This highlights the belief that spiritual sustenance is as crucial as physical sustenance.<p><b>and in all of them my spirit finds life</b><br>Hezekiah's spirit finds life in God's promises and actions. This reflects a deep spiritual truth that true life and vitality come from a relationship with God. In <a href="/john/6-63.htm">John 6:63</a>, Jesus says, "The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life." This connection emphasizes that spiritual renewal and life are found in God's word and presence, a theme consistent throughout Scripture.<p><b>You have restored me to health</b><br>This phrase is a direct acknowledgment of God's healing power. Hezekiah's illness and subsequent recovery are recorded in <a href="/2_kings/20.htm">2 Kings 20:1-11</a>, where God extends his life by fifteen years. This miraculous healing serves as a testament to God's ability to intervene in human affairs and restore health. It also prefigures the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, who healed many as a sign of God's kingdom.<p><b>and have let me live</b><br>The extension of Hezekiah's life is a testament to God's mercy and grace. In the historical context, Hezekiah's recovery was significant not only for him personally but also for the nation of Judah, as his leadership was crucial during a time of Assyrian threat. This phrase underscores the biblical theme that life itself is a gift from God, as seen in <a href="/psalms/139-16.htm">Psalm 139:16</a>, where it is stated that all the days ordained for us were written in God's book before one of them came to be.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hezekiah.htm">Hezekiah</a></b><br>The king of Judah who fell ill and prayed to God for healing. His life was extended by fifteen years as a result of God's intervention.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered God's message to Hezekiah, including the promise of healing and extended life.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The capital of Judah, where Hezekiah reigned and where these events took place.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The central figure who hears Hezekiah's prayer and grants him healing and additional years of life.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_illness.htm">The Illness</a></b><br>A significant event in Hezekiah's life that led to his fervent prayer and subsequent divine healing.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_prayer.htm">The Power of Prayer</a></b><br>Hezekiah's earnest prayer demonstrates the importance of turning to God in times of distress. Believers are encouraged to seek God wholeheartedly, trusting in His power to heal and restore.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_mercy.htm">God's Sovereignty and Mercy</a></b><br>God's response to Hezekiah's prayer highlights His sovereignty and mercy. He is in control of life and death, and His compassion leads to acts of grace and healing.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/life's_purpose_and_gratitude.htm">Life's Purpose and Gratitude</a></b><br>Hezekiah's extended life serves as a reminder to live with purpose and gratitude. Believers should reflect on how they can use their time to honor God and fulfill His purposes.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_god's_promises.htm">Faith in God's Promises</a></b><br>The fulfillment of God's promise to Hezekiah encourages believers to have faith in God's promises, knowing that He is faithful to His word.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophets_and_god's_word.htm">The Role of Prophets and God's Word</a></b><br>Isaiah's role in delivering God's message underscores the importance of listening to and heeding God's word, as conveyed through Scripture and spiritual leaders.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_38.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 38</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_do_healing_prayers_match_chance.htm">Why do prayers for healing work at the same rate as random chance?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_achieve_salvation.htm">What are the steps to achieve salvation?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_bethlehem's_biblical_role.htm">What was the purpose of Jesus being anointed?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible's_view_on_ayurveda.htm">What does the Bible say about Ayurvedic medicine?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/38.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(16) <span class= "bld">By these things . . .</span><span class= "ital">--i.e., </span>by the word of God and the performance which fulfils it. For "in all these things," read <span class= "ital">wholly through them. </span>The words remind us of <a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm" title="And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.">Deuteronomy 8:3</a>, "Man doth not live by bread alone <span class= "bld">. . .</span>"<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/38.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">By these things</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> "the things which thou speakest and doest" (ver. 15). Man does not "live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord" (<a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a>). <span class="cmt_word">And in all these things</span>. This rendering is against the laws of grammar. Translate, <span class="accented">and wholly in them.</span> <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/38-16.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">O Lord,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדֹנָ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏō·nāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_136.htm">Strong's 136: </a> </span><span class="str2">The Lord</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by [such things]</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·lê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">men live,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִֽחְי֑וּ</span> <span class="translit">(yiḥ·yū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2421.htm">Strong's 2421: </a> </span><span class="str2">To live, to revive</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and in all</span><br /><span class="heb">וּלְכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(ū·lə·ḵāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[of them]</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּהֶן֙</span> <span class="translit">(bā·hen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">my spirit</span><br /><span class="heb">רוּחִ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(rū·ḥî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7307.htm">Strong's 7307: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[finds] life.</span><br /><span class="heb">חַיֵּ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(ḥay·yê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2416.htm">Strong's 2416: </a> </span><span class="str2">Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life</span><br /><br /><span class="word">You have restored me to health</span><br /><span class="heb">וְתַחֲלִימֵ֖נִי</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ṯa·ḥă·lî·mê·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2492.htm">Strong's 2492: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bind firmly, to be, plump, to dream</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and let me live.</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהַחֲיֵֽנִי׃</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ha·ḥă·yê·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2421.htm">Strong's 2421: </a> </span><span class="str2">To live, to revive</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/38-16.htm">Isaiah 38:16 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 38:16 Lord men live by these things (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 38:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 38:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 38:17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 38:17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>