Isaiah 38:9-11

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life;
    I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld^[a] for the rest of my life.
¹¹ I thought, I won’t see the Lord.
    The Lord is in the land of the living.
I won’t look upon humans again
    or be with the inhabitants of the world.