Isaiah 38:12

My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver’s web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.

13In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

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Cross References

Job 4:20And from morning to evening they no longer exist: 1 They have perished, because they cannot help themselves. 1

Job 7:3So have I also endured months of vanity, 1 And nights of pain have been appointed me. 1

Job 9:25But my life is swifter than a post: 1 My days have fled away, and they knew it not. 1

Job 17:1I perish, carried away by the wind, 1 And I seek for burial, and obtain it not. 1

Psalms 73:14Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; 1 Thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations. 1

Psalms 90:5Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; 1 Nor of the arrow flying by day; 1

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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