Isaias 38:10
I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.
Challoner: HellSheol, or Hades, the region of the dead.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ego dixi in dimidio dierum meorum : Vadam ad portas inferi ; quæsivi residuum annorum meorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐγὼ εἶπα Ἐν τῷ ὕψει τῶν ἡμερῶν μου ἐν πύλαις ᾅδου καταλείψω τὰ ἔτη τὰ ἐπίλοιπα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲנִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי בִּדְמִ֥י יָמַ֛י אֵלֵ֖כָה בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֣י שְׁא֑וֹל פֻּקַּ֖דְתִּי יֶ֥תֶר שְׁנוֹתָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Hell. Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. (Challoner)
He was afraid to die without issue. (St. Jerome; ver. 12.)
Manasses was born three years later. (Calmet)
The king would naturally have died. (St. Augustine, de Gen. ad lit. vi. 17.) (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.