Isaiah 38:10 - Forerunner Commentary

Isaiah 38:10

8 “Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.

9 This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

10 I said,
“In the prime of my life
I shall go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”

11 I said,
“I shall not see¹ Yah,
The Lord ^ain the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more¹ among the inhabitants of the world.

12 ^aMy life span is gone,
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have cut off my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.

13 I have considered until morning—
Like a lion,
So He breaks all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.

14 Like a crane o¹r a swallow, so I chattered;
^aI mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed;
¹Undertake for me!

15 “What shall I say?
¹He has both spoken to me,
And He Himself has done it.
I shall walk carefully all my years
^aIn the bitterness of my soul.

16 O Lord, by these things men live;
And in all these things is the life of my spirit;
So You will restore me and make me live.

17 Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

18 For ^aSheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

19 The living, the living man, he shall praise You,
As I do this day;
^aThe father shall make known Your truth to the children.

20 “The Lord was ready to save me;
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”

21 Now ^aIsaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

22 And ^aHezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

Verse Comparison: Isaiah 38:10

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American Standard Version
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Amplified® Bible
I said, In the noontide {and} tranquillity of my days I must depart; I am to pass through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead), deprived of the remainder of my years.

Contemporary English Version
I thought I would die during my best years and stay as a prisoner forever in the world of the dead.

Darby English Version
I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

Good News Bible
I thought that in the prime of life I was going to the world of the dead, Never to live out my life.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years."

New International Version
I said, "In the prime of my life
must I go through the gates of death
and be robbed of the rest of my years?"

New King James Version
I said,
“ In the prime of my life
I shall go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
I said, " In the middle of my life I will enter the gates of Sheol; I will become deprived of the rest of my years."

Revised Standard Version
I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.

Young's Literal Translation
`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.

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