Isaiah 24:8

24:8 The happy sound ¹  of the tambourines stops,

the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt,

the happy sound of the harp ceases.

Isaiah 38:11

38:11 “I thought,

‘I will no longer see the Lord ²  in the land of the living,

I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. ³ 

[24:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the joy” (again later in this verse).

[38:11]  ² tn The Hebrew text has יָהּ יָהּ (yah yah, the abbreviated form of יְהוָה [yÿhvah] repeated), but this is probably a corruption of יְהוָה.

[38:11]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has חָדֶל (khadel), which appears to be derived from a verbal root meaning “to cease, refrain.” But the form has probably suffered an error of transmission; the original form (attested in a few medieval Hebrew mss) was likely חֶלֶד (kheled, “world”).