Holy Scripture

Isaiah 38:11

A church father on this verse
“(Verses 11-12) I said, I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest. My generation has ceased: it has been taken away and rolled up from me like a shepherd's tent. My life has been cut off as by a weaver: while I was still beginning, it cut me off. I sa…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

11I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.

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In context

9The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness.

10I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.

— Isaiah 38:11 —

12My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver’s web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.

13In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

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