Isaiah 38:10
Good News Translation
I thought that in the prime of life I was going to the world of the dead, Never to live out my life.

New 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.

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

New American Bible
In the noontime of life I said, I must depart! To the gates of Sheol I have been consigned for the rest of my years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

Isaiah 38:1 In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaiah the son of Amos the prophet cane unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.

Job 6:11 For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Job 17:11-16 My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. . . .

2 Corinthians 1:9 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
9The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. 10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.11I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

Job 17:11
My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

Job 17:15
Where is now then my expectation, and who considereth my patience?

Psalm 102:24
Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Isaiah 38:9
The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

Jonah 2:6
The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

Isaiah 38:9
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