Isaiah 38:10 meaning and explanation

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Isaiah 38:10, Berean Standard Bible

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Hezekiah speaks here in the psalm he wrote after his illness and recovery, looking back on what he felt when Isaiah told him he would die. He was probably in his late thirties, so the "prime of my life" is literal.

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