Isaiah 38:9-20

American Standard Version

¹⁰ I said, In the ^[a]noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
¹¹ I said, I shall not see ^[b]Jehovah, even ^[c]Jehovah in the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more ^[d]with the inhabitants of the world.
¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent:
I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the ^[e]loom:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
^13 [f]I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter;
I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward:
O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
¹⁵ What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:
I shall go ^[g]softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men live;
And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
^[h]Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
¹⁷ Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness:
But ^[i]thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of ^[j]corruption;
For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
¹⁸ For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:
The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
²⁰ Jehovah is ready to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.