Isaiah 38:11

I said, I do not see Jah — Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10'I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

12My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:4Turn back, O Jehovah, draw out my soul, Save me for Thy kindness' sake.

Psalms 31:22And I — I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

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 →

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