Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Hezekiah's Psalm-Prayer

I said: At the height of my days, in the gates of Hades,
[ego dixi in dimidio dierum meorum vadam ad portas inferi--Vulgate]
I shall leave behind my remaining years.
[quaesivi residuum annorum meorum]
I said, No longer shall I see the salvation of God on the earth;
no longer shall I see a man from my kindred.
I have left behind the rest of my life;
it has gone out and departed from me
like the one who having pitched a tent takes it down;
my spirit in me became like the web
of a weaver who approaches to cut it off.
In that day I was given over as to a lion until morning;
thus He broke my bones,
for I was given over from day to night.

--Isaiah 38:10-13 (LXX, NETS)

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