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Isaiah 38:10
Isaiah 38:10 is verse 10 of Isaiah chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
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Isaiah 38:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
9 This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10 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.”
11 I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
12 My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Job 17:11My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
Job 17:12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
Job 17:16Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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.