Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving
Isaiah 38:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”Or In the quiet or In the middle
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”Sheol is the place of the dead.
- ASV
- 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.
- LSV
- “I said in the cutting off of my days, || I go to the gates of Sheol, || I have numbered the remnant of my years.
- YLT
- '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.
- DBY
- 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.
- DRC
- I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.
- GNV
- I saide in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
- JPS
- I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
- LXXE
- I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֲנִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי בִּדְמִ֥י יָמַ֛י אֵלֵ֖כָה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י שְׁא֑וֹל פֻּקַּ֖דְתִּי יֶ֥תֶר שְׁנוֹתָֽי׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐγὼ εἶπα ἐν τῷ ὕψει τῶν ἡμερῶν μου, πορεύσομαι ἐν πύλαις ἅδου, καταλείψω τὰ ἔτη τὰ ἐπίλοιπα.
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Cross-references most cited first
- 2 Corinthians 1:9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
- Psalms 102:24I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Psalms 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
- Isaiah 38:1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
- Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- Job 17:11–16My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart. They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness. If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in…
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