Isaiah 38:10-12

Contemporary English Version

¹⁰ I thought I would die
    during my best years
and stay as a prisoner forever
    in the world of the dead.
¹¹ I thought I would never again
    see you, my Lord,
or any of the people
    who live on this earth.
¹² My life was taken from me
like the tent that a shepherd
    pulls up and moves.
You cut me off like thread
    from a weaver's loom;
you make a wreck of me
    day and night.