Isaiah 38:11
Good News Translation
I thought that in this world of the living I would never again see the LORD Or any living person.

New Revised Standard Version
I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world.

Contemporary English Version
I thought I would never again see you, my LORD, or any of the people who live on this earth.

New American Bible
I said, I shall see the LORD no more in the land of the living. Nor look on any mortals among those who dwell in the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Job 35:14,15 Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him. . . .

Psalm 6:4,5 Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake. . . .

Psalm 27:13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 31:22 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 116:8,9 For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. . . .

Exodus 9:5,6 And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land. . . .

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. 11I 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.12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.…
Cross References
Psalm 27:13
I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 31:22
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 116:9
I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all his multitude round about his grave, all of them slain, and fallen by the sword; that went down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.

Isaiah 38:10
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