Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
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.
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.”
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.
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
A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:
10
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
the Lord in the land of the living;
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God
Psalm 102:24
in the middle of my life!
Your years continue through all generations.
Job 6:11
What is my future, that I should be patient?
Job 7:7
My eye will never again see anything good.
Job 17:11-16
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.
Psalm 107:18
and came near the gates of death.
Isaiah 38:1
In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.