Berean Standard Bible
Isaiah 38:12
12My 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.
Isaiah 38:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
- New King James Version (NKJV)My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.
Context of Isaiah 38:12
10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” 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. 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. 13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me. 14I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
Read all of Isaiah 38Isaiah 38:12 word by word
דּוֹרִ֗י נִסַּ֧ע וְנִגְלָ֛ה מִנִּ֖י כְּאֹ֣הֶל רֹעִ֑י קִפַּ֨דְתִּי כָאֹרֵ֤ג חַיַּי֙ מִדַּלָּ֣ה יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִי מִיּ֥וֹם עַד־לַ֖יְלָה תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
- My dwellingדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755
- has been picked upנָסַעnâsa‛ · to set outH5265
- and removedגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: removeH1540
- from meמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
- like a shepherd’sרָעָהrâ‛âh · to pastureH7462
- tentאֹ֫הֶל'ôhel · tentH168
- I have rolled upקָפַדqâphad · to rollH7088
- my lifeחַיִּיםchay · lifeH2416
- like a weaverאָרַג'ârag · to weaveH707
- He cuts me offבָּצַעbâtsa‛ · to cut offH1214
- from the loomדַּלָּהdallâh · hairH1803
- from dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- untilעַד‛ad · tillH5704
- nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
- You make an end of meשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999
Cross-references for Isaiah 38:12
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Psalms 89:45You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
- Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Isaiah 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Isaiah 13:20She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- James 4:14You 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.
- Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
- Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Psalms 31:22In 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.
- Psalms 119:23Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Commentaries on Isaiah 38:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Mine age - is removed from me as a shepherd's tent - רעי roi is put for רעה roeh, say the rabbis (Sal. Den Melec on the place); but much more probably is written imperfectly for רעים roim, shepherds. See note on Isaiah 5:1. I shall be removed from this state to another, as a shepherd removes his tent from one place to another for the sake of his flock. Is not this a strong intimation of his belief in a future state? I have cut off like a weaver my life…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Mine age - The word which is used here (דור dôr ) means properly the revolving period or circle of human life. The parallelism seems to demand, however, that it should be used in the sense of dwelling or habitation, so as to correspond with the shepherd‘s tent.‘ Accordingly, Lowth and Noyes render it, Habitation.‘ So also do Gesenius and Rosenmuller. The Arabic word has this signification; and the Hebrew verb דור dûr also means “to dwell, to remain,” as…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-22Verses 9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust committed to our charge, as the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12These images show how short human life is (compare 2 Corinthians 5:1). They remind us that life on earth does not last long.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-209-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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