Isaiah 38:11 meaning and explanation

I 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.

Isaiah 38:11, Berean Standard Bible

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Hezekiah speaks these words in the psalm he wrote after his recovery, recalling what he felt when Isaiah told him he would die. In Israel's worship, seeing the LORD meant meeting him in the temple among the living, and death seemed to cut a person off from that praise.

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