What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Isaiah 38:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I said, *In the middle of my life I go into the gates of She'ol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life; I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld for the rest of my life. Catholic Public Domain Version "I said: In the middle of my days, I will go to the gates of Hell. So I sought the remainder of my years. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell. I sought for the residue of my years. |
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
I said, *My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.
Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.
Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in She'ol, where you are going.
In those days was Chizkiyahu sick and near death. Yeshaiyahu the prophet, the son of Amotz, came to him, and said to him, *Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'*
The writing of Chizkiyahu king of Yehudah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, LORD my God.
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,