9. A composition by Judah’s King Hezekiah when he was sick and then recovered from his sickness:
10. I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life;I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld for the rest of my life.
11. I thought, I won’t see the Lord.The Lord is in the land of the living.I won’t look upon humans againor be with the inhabitants of the world.
12. My lifetime is plucked upand taken from me like a shepherd’s tent.My life is shriveled like woven cloth;God cuts me off from the loom.Between daybreak and nightfallyou carry out your verdict against me.