Isaiah 38 · Verse 11

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah 38:11, King James Version

Isaiah 38:11 in other translations

BSBI said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
WEBI said, “I won’t see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
ASVI said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
YLTI said, I do not see Jah--Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.
DARBYI said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
BBEI said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
WebsterI said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

What does Isaiah 38:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:9-20

9-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 The Lord "Jehovah" - יה Yah, יה Yah, seems to be יהוה Yehovah, in MS. Bodl., and it was so at first written in another. So the Syriac. See Houbigant. I believe יהוה Yehovah was the original reading. See the note on Isa 12:2 (note).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 38:9-22

We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust…

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Isaiah 38:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙'a.Mar.tiI saidH559
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
אֶרְאֶ֣ה'er.'EhI will seeH7200
יָ֔הּYahYahwehH3050
יָ֖הּyahYahwehH3050
בְּאֶ֣רֶץbe.'E.retzin [the] land ofH776
הַחַיִּ֑יםha.chai.Yimthe livingH2416
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
אַבִּ֥יט'a.BitI will look atH5027
אָדָ֛ם'a.DamhumankindH120
ע֖וֹדodagainH5750
עִם\־'im-withH5973
י֥וֹשְׁבֵיYo.o.she.vei[the] inhabitants ofH3427
חָֽדֶל\׃Cha.delcessationH2309

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 38:11

  • Psalms 27:13

    I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

  • Psalms 116:8-9

    For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

    For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

  • Psalms 6:4-5

    Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

  • Job 35:14-15

    Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

  • Psalms 31:22

    For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 35:14,15; Ps 6:4,5; 27:13; 31:22; 116:8,9; Ec 9:5,6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 38:10

    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.

  • Isaiah 38:11

    I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Isaiah 38:12

    Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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Isaiah 38:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Dije: No veré á JAH, á JAH en la tierra de los que viven: ya no veré más hombre con los moradores del mundo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Je disais: Je ne verrai pas Jah, Jah dans la terre des vivants! Avec les habitants du lieu où tout a cessé, je ne contemplerai plus l’homme.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich sprach: Ich werde Jehova nicht sehen, Jehova im Lande der Lebendigen; ich werde Menschen nicht mehr erblicken bei den Bewohnern des Totenreiches.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dixi: Non videbo Dominum Deum in terra viventium; non aspiciam hominem ultra, et habitatorem quietis.