Isaiah 38:10
I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on the rest of my years?”
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9This is what Hezekiah, king of Judah, wrote after he recovered from his sickness:
Cross References
Job 6:11Why should I go on waiting when I don't have the strength? Why should I keep going when I don't know what is going to happen to me?
Job 17:11My life is over. My plans are gone. My heart is broken.
Psalms 102:24I cried out, “My God, don't take my life while I'm young! You are the one who lives forever.
Psalms 107:18They didn't want to eat; they were at death's door.
2 Corinthians 1:9In fact it was like a death sentence inside us. This was to stop us relying on ourselves and to trust in God who raises the dead.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22
Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →