Isaiah 38:10-12

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¹⁰I said, “Must I leave in the prime of my life?
    Must I be consigned to the control^[a] of Sheol?^[b]
        Bitter are^[c] my years!”
¹¹I said, “I won’t see the Lord^[d] in the land of the living;
    and^[e] I’ll no longer observe human beings
        among the denizens of the grave.^[f]
¹²My house has been plucked up and vanishes^[g] from me
    like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver, I’ve taken account of^[h] my life,
    and he cuts me off from the loom—
        day and night you make an end of me.

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Isaiah 38:10 Lit. gates; i.e. the place where legal cases were adjudicated
Isaiah 38:10 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
Isaiah 38:10 So 1QIsa^a; MT LXX read the rest of
Isaiah 38:11 Lit. Yah; So 1QIsa^a; MT reads Yah Yah; MT^mss read Lord
Isaiah 38:11 So 1QIsa^a; the Heb. lacks and
Isaiah 38:11 Lit. cessation; or the end; So 1QIsa^a MT; MT^mss read the world
Isaiah 38:12 So 1QIsa^a; 1QIsa^b MT read and has been taken away
Isaiah 38:12 So 1QIsa^a; MT reads have rolled up

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Isaiah 38:10-12

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