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Isaiah 38:9 - 38:20

9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: 10
I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”
11
I said, “I will not see Yah,
Yah in the land of the living;
I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
12
Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.
13
I soothed my soul until morning.
Like a lion—so He shatters all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.
14
Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped;
I moan like a dove;
My eyes look wistfully to the heights;
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

15
“What shall I say?
Indeed, He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
16
O Lord, by these things men live,
And in all these is the life of my spirit;
O restore me to health and let me live!

17
Behold, for my own well‑being I had great bitterness;
But it is You who has held back my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18
For Sheol cannot thank You;
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot keep watch for Your truth.
19
It is the living, the living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A father makes known to his sons about Your truth.
20
Yahweh is here to save me;
So we will play my songs on stringed instruments
All the days of our life at the house of Yahweh.”