Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd's tent, the place where I live has been pulled up and taken away from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up the cloth of my life and cut it from the loom. Day and night you bring me to an end.

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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 will never again see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living. I won't see anyone else again, none of the inhabitants of this world.

13I lie there patiently until the morning, but I feel like there's a lion breaking every bone in my body. Day and night you bring me to an end.

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Cross References

Job 4:20Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.

Job 7:3I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.

Job 9:25The days of my life race by like a runner, rushing past without me seeing any happiness.

Job 17:1“My spirit is crushed; my life is extinguished; the grave is ready for me.

Psalms 73:14I'm cursed with suffering all day long; every morning I'm punished.

Psalms 90:5You bring people's lives to a sudden end, like dreams that vanish. They are like grass that grows up in the morning—

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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