[a]The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

10 I said in the [b]cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

11 I said, [c]I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:9 He left this song of his lamentation and thanksgiving to all posterity, as a monument of his own infirmity and thankful heart for God’s benefits, as David did, Ps. 51.
  2. Isaiah 38:10 At what time it was told me, that I should die.
  3. Isaiah 38:11 I shall no more praise the Lord here in this Temple among the faithful: thus God suffereth his dearest children to want his consolation for a time, that his grace afterward may the more appear when they feel their own weakness.

Bible Gateway Recommends