Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 38:10-11
Isaiah 38:10-11. I said Within myself; I concluded, in the cutting off of my days When my days were cut off by the sentence of God, related Isaiah 38:1; I shall go to the gates of the grave I perceive that I must die without any hopes of prevention. The grave is called man’s long home, Ecclesiastes 12:5; and the house appointed for all living, Job 30:23; and death opens the gates of this house. I am deprived of the residue of my years Which I might have lived according to the common... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned - There has been considerable variety in interpreting this expression. The Septuagint renders it, ‘I was given up in the morning as to a lion.’ The Vulgate renders it, ‘I hoped until morning;’ and in his commentary, Jerome says it means, that as Job in his trouble and anguish Isaiah 7:4 sustained himself at night expecting the day, and in the daytime waiting for the night, expecting a change for the better, so Hezekiah waited during the night expecting relief in the morning. He knew,... read more