Isaiah 38:10

New International Reader's Version

I said, “I’m enjoying the best years of my life. Must I now go through the gates of death? Will the rest of my years be taken away from me?”

Cross References

Job 6:11

“I’m so weak that I no longer have any hope. Things have gotten so bad that I can’t wait for help anymore.

Job 7:7

God, remember that my life is only a breath. I’ll never be happy again.

Psalm 102:24

So I said, “My God, don’t let me die in the middle of my life. You will live for all time to come.

Psalm 102:25

In the beginning you made the earth secure. You placed it on its foundations. Your hands created the heavens.

Psalm 107:18

They refused to eat anything. They came close to passing through the gates of death.

Psalm 31:23

Love the Lord, all you who are faithful to him! The Lord keeps safe those who are faithful to him. But he completely pays back those who are proud.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

No matter what you do, work at it with all your might. Remember, you are going to the place of the dead. And there isn’t any work or planning or knowledge or wisdom there.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days Hezekiah became very sick. He knew he was about to die. Isaiah went to see him. Isaiah was the son of Amoz. Isaiah told Hezekiah, “The Lord says, ‘Put everything in order. Make out your will. You are going to die soon. You will not get well again.’ ”

Isaiah 38:9

Here is a song of praise that was written by Hezekiah, the king of Judah. He wrote it after he was sick and had gotten well again.

Jonah 2:6

I sank down to the bottom of the mountains. I thought I had died and gone down into the grave forever. But you are the Lord my God. You brought my life up from the very edge of the pit of death.

2 Corinthians 1:9

In fact, we felt as if we were under the sentence of death. But that happened so that we would not depend on ourselves but on God. He raises the dead to life.