Isaiah 38:12

My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

Young's Literal 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 do not see Jah — Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

13I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

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Cross References

Job 4:20From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

Job 7:3So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

Job 9:25My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

Job 17:1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished — graves [are] for me.

Psalms 73:14And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.

Psalms 90:5Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

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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