Isaiah 38:12

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

In Context

11I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.

13I kept still until the morning; as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

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Cross References

Job 4:20From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Job 9:25And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

Psalms 73:14For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth 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 →

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