Isaiah 38:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
  • Ps 102:24 : 24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
  • Ps 107:18 : 18 They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
  • Isa 38:1 : 1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.
  • Job 6:11 : 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
  • Job 7:7 : 7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
  • Job 17:11-16 : 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart. 12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark. 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

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    11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

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    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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    23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

    24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

  • Isa 38:15
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    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

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    3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

    5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

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    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

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    22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

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    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

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    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

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