Isaiah 38:12
My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
Cross References
Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
Job 7:3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Job 9:25My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
Job 17:1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
Psalms 73:14For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.
Psalms 90:5...
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 →