Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Majority Standard Bible

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, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

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Cross References

Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Psalms 73:14For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

Psalms 90:5You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of 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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