Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
I am to enter the
I am to be
King James Version
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Holman Bible
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
International Standard Version
I said, "Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!"
A Conservative Version
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.
American Standard Version
I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
Amplified
I said, “In mid-life
I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead),
I am to be summoned, deprived of the remainder of my years.”
Darby Translation
I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
Julia Smith Translation
I said in the quiet of my days, I shall go to the gates of hades: I was missed the remainder of my years.
King James 2000
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the rest of my years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol [for] the rest of my years."
Modern King James verseion
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years.
NET Bible
"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.'
New Heart English Bible
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
The Emphasized Bible
I, said - In the noontide of my days, I must enter the gates of hades, - I am deprived of the residue of ray years!
Webster
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
World English Bible
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
Themes
Gates » Illustrative » (of the grave,) of death
Gates » Figurative » Of the grave
hezekiah » King of judah » His psalm of thanksgiving
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 38:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hezekiah's Illness
9 The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease. 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. 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.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
Job 6:11
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Job 7:7
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Job 17:11-16
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
Psalm 107:18
They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
Isaiah 38:1
In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.