Isaiah 38:11
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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- Ps 27:13 : 13 I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
- Ps 31:22 : 22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
- Ps 116:8-9 : 8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling. 9 I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.
- Eccl 9:5-6 : 5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them. 6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
- Job 35:14-15 : 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him. 15 And now ... ;
- Ps 6:4-5 : 4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy. 5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
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10 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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8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
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10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
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12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
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26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;
27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
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9 I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.
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9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
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18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
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16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
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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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13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
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4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.
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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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12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
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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 I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
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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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11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.
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14 And may you, while I am still living, O may you be kind to me, as the Lord is kind, and keep me from death!
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15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
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5 I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.
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3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
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17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
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