Isaiah 38:10
“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
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Referenced Verses
- 2 Cor 1:9 : 9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.
- Ps 102:24 : 24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.
- Ps 107:18 : 18 They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.
- Isa 38:1 : 1 The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him,“This is what the LORD says,‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”
- Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 7:7 : 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 17:11-16 : 11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart. 12 These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’ 13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’ 15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it? 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
13 I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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23 He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.
24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.
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15 What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.
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10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
- Job 10:18-214 verses77%
18 An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
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3 For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.
4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
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11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
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10 My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.
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13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
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13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
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17 For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.
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16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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9 Hezekiah’s Song of Thanks This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
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4 “O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
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4 I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!
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17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
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23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
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3 The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.
- Ps 89:47-482 verses73%
47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
48 No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
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22 I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.
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18 So I said,“My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD.”
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22 He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.
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6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.
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15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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6 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.
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5 The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.
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6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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18 The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.
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1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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1 The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him,“This is what the LORD says,‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”
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18 Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
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2 Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
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16 Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.
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7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.