Isaiah 38:12

My life is removed and carried away from me like a shepherd's tent; 1 I have rolled up my life like a weaver; you are cutting me off from the loom; 1 between day and night you are ending my life. 1

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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 that I will no longer see Yahweh, Yahweh in the land of the living; 1 I will no longer look on mankind or the inhabitants of the world. + 38:11 the inhabitants of the world : Most modern versions have this meaning. Ancient Hebrew copies have the inhabitants of the place of non-existence (that is, brief existence). 1

13I cried out + 38:13 The Hebrew could be read: I cried out or I calmed myself . until the morning; 1 like a lion he breaks all my bones. 1 Between day and night you are ending my life. 1

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Cross References

Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are destroyed; 1 they perish forever without anyone noticing them. 1

Job 7:3so I have been made to endure months of misery; 1 I have been given trouble-filled nights. 1

Job 9:25My days are swifter than a running messenger; 1 my days flee away; they see no good anywhere. 1

Job 17:1My spirit is consumed, and my days are over; 1 the grave is ready for me. 1

Psalms 73:14For all the day long I have been afflicted 1 and disciplined every morning. 1

Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as with a flood and they sleep; 1 in the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up. 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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