Bible verse
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.”
Isaiah 38:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 38.
6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
7 This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
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.
13 I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
14 I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
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.
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.
ERV
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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