Isaiah 38:12

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 middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I have been deprived of the rest of my years.” 11I said, “I will not see the Lord, The Lord in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world. Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. 13I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion--so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me. 14Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

Isaiah 38:12 word by word

דּוֹרִ֗י נִסַּ֧ע וְנִגְלָ֛ה מִנִּ֖י כְּאֹ֣הֶל רֹעִ֑י קִפַּ֨דְתִּי כָאֹרֵ֤ג חַיַּי֙ מִדַּלָּ֣ה יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִי מִיּ֥וֹם עַד־לַ֖יְלָה תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

• Like a shepherd’sרֹעִיrô‛îy · to shepherdH7473
• tentאֹ֫הֶל'ôhel · tentH168
• my dwellingדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755
• is pulledנָסַעnâsa‛ · to set outH5265
• and removedגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: removeH1540
• weaverאָרַג'ârag · to weaveH707
• rolledקָפַדqâphad · to rollH7088
• cutsבָּצַעbâtsa‛ · to cut offH1214
• from the loomדַּלָּהdallâh · hairH1803
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• untilעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• You makeשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999
• an endשָׁלֵםshâlam · to completeH7999

Cross-references for Isaiah 38:12

• Job 7:7“Remember that my life is a mere breath; My eye will not see goodness again.
• Psalms 89:45You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
• Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
• Isaiah 1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a city under watch.
• Isaiah 13:20It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.
• Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And they come to an end without hope.
• Job 9:25“Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.
• Job 14:2Like a flower he comes out and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
• James 4:14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.
• Job 7:3So I am allotted worthless months, And nights of trouble are apportioned to me.
• Job 17:1“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me.
• Psalms 31:22As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from Your eyes”; Nevertheless You heard the sound of my pleadings When I called to You for help.
• Psalms 119:23Even though rulers sit and speak against 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

Topics related to Isaiah 38:12

• Death
• Hezekiah
• Life
• Murmuring
• Psalms
• Tent
• Weaving

In the dictionaries

• Pining Sickness
• Celebrate
• Herdsman
• Hezekiah
• Poetry
• Reckon
• Undertake
• Weaving, weavers
• Age; Old Age
• Chronicles, Books of

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