Catholic Public Domain Version
"“I said: In the middle of my days, I will go to the gates of Hell. So I sought the remainder of my years. "
— Isaiah 38:10, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“ 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. ”
“I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."”
““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.’”
“I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.”
“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.”
“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.”
And this will be a sign for you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word, which he has spoken:
Behold, I will cause the shadow of the lines, which has now descended on the sundial of Ahaz, to move in reverse for ten lines.” And so, the sun moved backward by ten lines, through the degrees by which it had descended.
The writing of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, after he had fallen ill and had recovered from his sickness:
“I said: In the middle of my days, I will go to the gates of Hell. So I sought the remainder of my years.
I said: I will not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I will no longer behold man, nor the habitation of rest.
My longevity has been taken away; it has been folded up and taken from me, like the tent of a shepherd. My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver. While I was still beginning, he cut me off. From morning until evening, you have marked out my limits.
I hoped, even until morning. Like a lion, so has he crushed all my bones. From morning until evening, you have marked my limits.