Isaiah 38:12

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

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

Latin

Generatio mea ablata est, et convoluta est a me, quasi tabernaculum pastorum. Præcisa est velut a texente vita mea; dum adhuc ordirer, succidit me: de mane usque ad vesperam finies me.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Isaiah 38:12

These images show how short human life is (compare 2 Corinthians 5:1). They remind us that life on earth does not last long.

Isaiah 38:9–20

Hezekiah’s poem includes both lament (Isaiah 38:9–14) and praise (38:15–20). The praise remains restrained until the final verse.

Theme notes and profiles

Hezekiah Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Psalm 73:14
For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
Hebrews 1:12
You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”
Psalm 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Psalm 102:23–24
He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
Job 14:2
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Psalm 31:22
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Job 7:3–7
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
Isaiah 13:20
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
Psalm 119:23
Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Isaiah 1:8
And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Glossary

Hell Hezekiah History of Israel Inscriptions Isaiah, Book of Kings, Books of First and Second Miracle

Topics

Death: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Hezekiah: King of Judah: His Psalm of Thanksgiving Life: Brevity and Uncertainty of Murmuring: Hezekiah Natural Life is Compared to a Shepherd's Tent Removed Natural Life is Compared to a Thread Cut by the Weaver Psalms of Hezekiah, Celebrating Deliverance from Death Shepherds: Dwelt in Tents While Tending Their Flocks Sickness: Saints: Acknowledge That, Comes from God Tent by Shepherds Tents were Used by Shepherds While Tending Their Flocks Tents: Ease and Rapidity of Their Removal, Alluded To Weaving: General Scriptures Concerning

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