Isa 38:11 | NETfull | STEP | “I thought, ‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

Isaiah 38:11

11 “I thought,
‘I will no longer see the Lord ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [y^ehvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.} in the land of the living,
I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew mss) was likely חֶלֶד (kheled, “world”).}