Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 7:3so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Job 17:1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is [ready] for me.
Psalms 73:14for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Psalms 90:5Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22
Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →