以赛亚书 38:10

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我曾說：在我盛年之際，我竟要進入陰間之門；我餘剩的年日，竟被奪去。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 说 ： 正 在 我 中 年 （ 或 译 ： 晌 午 ） 之 日 必 进 入 阴 间 的 门 ； 我 馀 剩 的 年 岁 不 得 享 受 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ After Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this song: ¹⁰ I said, "I am in the middle of my life. Do I have to go through the gates of death? Will I have the rest of my life taken away from me?" ¹¹ I said, "I will not see the Lord in the land of the living again. I will not again see the people who live on the earth. ¹² Like a shepherd's tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end. ¹³ All night I cried loudly. Like a lion, he crushed all my bones. In one day you brought me to this end. ¹⁴ I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became tired as I looked to the heavens. Lord, I have troubles. Please help me." ¹⁵ What can I say? The Lord told me what would happen and then made it happen. I have had these troubles in my soul, so now I will be humble all my life. ¹⁶ Lord, because of you, people live. Because of you, my spirit also lives; you made me well and let me live. ¹⁷ It was for my own good that I had such troubles. Because you love me very much, you did not let me die but threw my sins far away. ¹⁸ People in the place of the dead cannot praise you; those who have died cannot sing praises to you; those who die don't trust you to help them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 38:1, Job 6:11, Job 7:7, Job 17:11-16, 2 Corinthians 1:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:36 - all these things are against me Genesis 42:38 - bring Job 33:22 - his soul Psalms 9:13 - thou Psalms 49:14 - they Psalms 55:4 - terrors Psalms 88:5 - Free Psalms 102:24 - I said Psalms 107:18 - and they Lamentations 3:54 - I said Jonah 2:4 - I said Matthew 16:18 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 46:12
Judah's sons were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). Perez's sons were Hezron and Hamul.

Numbers 11:1
Now the people complained to the Lord about their troubles, and when he heard them, he became angry. Then fire from the Lord burned among the people at the edge of the camp.

Numbers 22:34
Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord , "I have sinned; I did not know you were standing in the road to stop me. If I am wrong, I will go back."

Numbers 26:19
Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, died in Canaan.

2 Samuel 11:27
After she finished her time of sadness, David sent servants to bring her to his house. She became David's wife and gave birth to his son, but the Lord did not like what David had done.

1 Chronicles 21:7
David had done something God had said was wrong, so God punished Israel.

Proverbs 14:32
The wicked are ruined by their own evil, but those who do right are protected even in death.

Proverbs 24:18
The Lord will notice and be displeased. He may not be angry with them anymore.

Jeremiah 44:4
I sent all my servants, the prophets, to you again and again. By them I said to you, ‘Don't do this terrible thing that I hate.'

Haggai 1:13
Haggai, the Lord 's messenger, gave the Lord 's message to the people, saying, "The Lord says, ‘I am with you.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I said, in the cutting off of my days,.... When he was told that he should die, and he believed he should; this he calls a "cutting off" in allusion to the weaver's web, Isaiah 38:12 and a cutting off "his days", he being now in the prime of his age, about thirty nine or forty years of age, and not arrived to the common period of life, and to which, according to his constitution, and the course of nature, he might have attained. The Jews call such a death a cutting off, that is, by the hand of God, which is before a man is fifty years of age. The Vulgate Latin version is, "in the midst of my days"; as it was, according to the common term of life, being threescore and ten, and at most eighty, Psalms 90:10:

I shall go to the gates of the grave; and enter there into the house appointed for all living, which he saw were open for him, and ready to receive him:

I am deprived of the residue of my days; the other thirty or forty years which he might expect to have lived, according to the course of nature; of these he was bereaved, according to the sentence of death he now had in him; what if the words were rendered, "I am visited with more of my years f?" and so the sense be, when I was apprehensive that I was just going to be cut off, and to be deprived of the days and years I might have lived, and hoped I should, to the glory of God, and the good of my subjects; just when I saw it was all over with me, I had a gracious visit or message from the Lord, assuring me that fifteen years should be added to my life: and so this is mentioned as a singular instance of divine goodness, in the midst of his distress; and to this sense the Targum agrees,

"because he remembered me for good, an addition was made to my years.''

f פקדתי יתר שנותי "visitatus sum, eum adhuc superessent anni", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I said - Probably the words ‘I said’ do not imply that he said or spoke this openly or audibly; but this was the language of his heart, or the substance of his reflections.

In the cutting off of my days - There has been considerable diversity of interpretation in regard to this phrase. Vitringa renders it as our translators have done. Rosenmuller renders it, ‘In the meridian of my days.’ The Septuagint, Ἐν τῷ ὕψει τῶν ἡμερῶν μου En tō hupsei tōn hēmerōn mou - ‘In the height of my days,’ where they evidently read ברמי instead of בדמי, by the change of a single letter. Aquila, and the Greek interpreters generally, rendered it, ‘In the silence of my days.’ The word used here in Hebrew (דמי demı̂y) denotes properly stillness, quiet, rest; and Gesenius renders it, ‘in the quiet of my days.’ According to him the idea is, ‘now when I might have rest; when I am delivered from my foes; when I am in the midst of my life, of my reign, and of my plans of usefulness, I must die.’ The sense is, doubtless, that he was about to be cut off in middle life, and when he had every prospect of usefulness, and of happiness in his reign.

I shall go to the gates of the grave - Hebrew, ‘Gates of sheol.’ On the meaning of the word sheol, and the Hebrew idea of the descent to it through gates, see the notes at Isaiah 5:14; Isaiah 14:9. The idea is, that he must go down to the regions of the dead, and dwell with departed shades (see the note at Isaiah 38:11).

The residue of my years - Those which I had hoped to enjoy; of which I had a reasonable prospect in the ordinary course of events. It is evident that Hezekiah had looked forward to a long life, and to a prosperous and peaceful reign. This was the means which God adopted to show him the impropriety of his desire, and to turn him more entirely to his service, and to a preparation for death. Sickness often has this effect on the minds of good people.