11 I said,
“I shall not see [a]Yah,
The Lord (A)in the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more [b]among the inhabitants of [c]the world.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:11 Heb. Yah, Yah
  2. Isaiah 38:11 LXX omits among the inhabitants of the world
  3. Isaiah 38:11 So with some Heb. mss.; MT, Vg. rest; Tg. land

13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed
That I would see the goodness of the Lord
(A)In the land of the living.

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For the living know that they will die;
But (A)the dead know nothing,
And they have no more reward,
For (B)the memory of them is forgotten.
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished;
Nevermore will they have a share
In anything done under the sun.

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(A)For You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.
I will walk before the Lord
(B)In the land of the living.

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22 For I said in my haste,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.

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Return, O Lord, deliver me!
Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!
(A)For in death there is no remembrance of You;
In the grave who will give You thanks?

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14 (A)Although you say you do not see Him,
Yet justice is before Him, and (B)you must wait for Him.
15 And now, because He has not (C)punished in His anger,
Nor taken much notice of folly,

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