Isaiah 38:11 · KJV
“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.”
— Isaiah 38:11
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.
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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me. {with...: or, from the thrum}
Isaiah 38 — Context
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
10I 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.
11I 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.
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me. {with...: or, from the thrum}
13I reckoned till morning, {that}, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Cross References
Psalms 27:13
{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 116:8-9
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, {and} my feet from falling.
Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Job 35:14-15
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, {yet} judgment {is} before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Psalms 6:4-5
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.