Yesaya 38:17

38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. ¹ 

You delivered me ²  from the pit of oblivion. ³ 

For you removed all my sins from your sight. ⁴ 

Yesaya 43:25

43:25 I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake;

your sins I do not remember.

Yesaya 64:9

64:9 Lord, do not be too angry!

Do not hold our sins against us continually! ⁵ 

Take a good look at your people, at all of us! ⁶ 

[38:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

[38:17]  ² tc The Hebrew text reads, “you loved my soul,” but this does not fit syntactically with the following prepositional phrase. חָשַׁקְתָּ (khashaqta, “you loved”), may reflect an aural error; most emend the form to חָשַׂכְת, (khasakht, “you held back”).

[38:17]  ³ tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”

[38:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”

[64:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “do not remember sin continually.”

[64:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “Look, gaze at your people, all of us.” Another option is to translate, “Take a good look! We are all your people.”