King James Version
Isaiah 38:15 in the King James Version says “What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitternes...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.”
Isaiah 38:15 · KJV
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. undertake: or, ease me
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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.
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. for peace: or, on my peace came great bitterness thou hast in: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit
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properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“What shall I say”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“unto me and himself hath done”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“in the bitterness”
H4751bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
“of my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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