KJV 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.
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Isaiah 38:12
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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
ASV American Standard Version
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 38
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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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דּוֹרִ֗יH1755 · dorgenerationנִסַּ֧עH5265 · na.sato set outוְנִגְלָ֛הH1540 · ga.lahHeglamמִנִּ֖יH4480 · minfromכְּאֹ֣הֶלH168 · o.heltentרֹעִ֑יH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsקִפַּ֨דְתִּיH7088 · qa.phadto rollכָאֹרֵ֤גH707 · a.ragto weaveחַיַּי֙H2416 · chayaliveמִדַּלָּ֣הH1803 · dal.lahhairיְבַצְּעֵ֔נִיH1214 · ba.tsato cut offמִיּ֥וֹםH3117 · yomdayעַד־H5704 · adtillלַ֖יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightתַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃H7999 · sa.lemto complete
Cross-references
Psalm 73:14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.Hebrews 1:12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.Psalm 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.James 4:14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.Psalm 102:11My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.2 Corinthians 5:4For we that are in [this] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.Isaiah 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.Psalm 89:45-47The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.Psalm 102:23-24He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.Job 4:20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].Job 7:3-7So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.Job 6:9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!Job 9:25-26Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.2 Peter 1:13-14Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;Job 17:1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.Isaiah 1:8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
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