Isaiah 38:10-20

New King James Version

¹⁰ I said,
“In the prime of my life
I shall go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”
¹¹ I said,
“I shall not see ^[a]Yah,
The Lord ^(A)in the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more ^[b]among the inhabitants of ^[c]the world.
^12 (B)My life span is gone,
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have cut off my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.
¹³ I have considered until morning—
Like a lion,
So He breaks all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.
¹⁴ Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered;
^(C)I mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O ^[d]Lord, I am oppressed;
^[e]Undertake for me!

¹⁵ “What shall I say?
^[f]He has both spoken to me,
And He Himself has done it.
I shall walk carefully all my years
^(D)In the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men live;
And in all these things is the life of my spirit;
So You will restore me and make me live.
¹⁷ Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
¹⁸ For ^(E)Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
¹⁹ The living, the living man, he shall praise You,
As I do this day;
^(F)The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

²⁰ “The Lord was ready to save me;
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”