Isaiah 38:10-12

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life;
    I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld^[a] for the rest of my life.
¹¹ I thought, I won’t see the Lord.
    The Lord is in the land of the living.
I won’t look upon humans again
    or be with the inhabitants of the world.
¹² My lifetime is plucked up
    and taken from me like a shepherd’s tent.
My life is shriveled like woven cloth;
    God cuts me off from the loom.
Between daybreak and nightfall
    you carry out your verdict against me.