abandoned[a] among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,(A)
whom You no longer remember,
and who are cut off from Your care.[b](B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:5 Or set free
  2. Psalm 88:5 Or hand

I am set apart with the dead,
    like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more,
    who are cut off(A) from your care.

Read full chapter

11 I said: I will never see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;(A)
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.[a]
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent.(B)
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;(C)
He cuts me off from the loom.[b](D)
You make an end of me from day until night.(E)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:11 Some Hb mss, Tg read of the world
  2. Isaiah 38:12 Lit thrum

11 I said, “I will not again see the Lord himself(A)
    in the land of the living;(B)
no longer will I look on my fellow man,
    or be with those who now dwell in this world.
12 Like a shepherd’s tent(C) my house
    has been pulled down(D) and taken from me.
Like a weaver I have rolled(E) up my life,
    and he has cut me off from the loom;(F)
    day and night(G) you made an end of me.

Read full chapter