Isaiah 38:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Ps 31:22 : 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 to you.
  • Ps 116:8-9 : 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Eccl 9:5-6 : 5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
  • Job 35:14-15 : 14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust in him. 15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he does not know it in great extremity:
  • Ps 6:4-5 : 4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: save me for Your mercy’s sake. 5 For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

  • Job 7:7-11
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    81%

    7Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more.

    8The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Isa 38:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

    13I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • Job 19:26-27
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    78%

    26And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

    27Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

  • Ps 116:9
    76%

    9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

  • Job 20:9
    75%

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

  • Ps 118:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

    18The LORD has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

  • Ps 89:47-48
    2 verses
    75%

    47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

    48What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

  • Job 10:18-21
    4 verses
    74%

    18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

  • Job 7:16
    74%

    16I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

  • Isa 38:15-16
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    74%

    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

    16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so You will restore me, and make me live.

  • Ps 39:13
    74%

    13O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • Jonah 2:4
    73%

    4Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.

  • Job 16:22
    73%

    22When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

  • Job 14:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Ps 38:10
    73%

    10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Ps 27:13
    72%

    13I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

  • Job 17:11
    72%

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

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Exod 33:20
    72%

    20And he said, You cannot see my face: for no man shall see me, and live.

  • Ps 31:22
    72%

    22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • Job 9:11
    72%

    11Lo, He passes by me, and I see Him not: He goes by also, but I do not perceive Him.

  • Job 30:23
    71%

    23For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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    71%

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    71%

    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

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    71%

    14And you shall not only while I yet live show me the kindness of the LORD, that I do not die:

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    71%

    18And I said, My strength and my hope perished from the LORD.

  • Ps 37:36
    71%

    36Yet he passed away, and indeed, he was no more; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Ps 142:5
    71%

    5I cried unto You, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

  • Ps 143:3
    71%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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    70%

    7Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

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    70%

    24I said, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; your years are throughout all generations."

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    70%

    17For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

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    70%

    14LORD, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

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