Discovery BoxIsaiah 6:7 
Context6:7 He touched my mouth with it and said, “Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven.” 1
Isaiah 38:17
Context38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. 2
You delivered me 3 from the pit of oblivion. 4
For you removed all my sins from your sight. 5
1 tn Or “ritually cleansed,” or “atoned for” (NIV).
2 tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”
3 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”).
4 tn בְּלִי (bÿli) most often appears as a negation, meaning “without,” suggesting the meaning “nothingness, oblivion,” here. Some translate “decay” or “destruction.”
5 tn Heb “for you threw behind your back all my sins.”
