Isaiah 38:12
Good News Translation
My life was cut off and ended, Like a tent that is taken down, Like cloth that is cut from a loom. I thought that God was ending my life.

New Revised Standard Version
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;

Contemporary English Version
My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves. You cut me off like thread from a weaver's loom; you make a wreck of me day and night.

New American Bible
My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent, is struck down and borne away from me; You have folded up my life, like a weaver who severs me from the last thread. From morning to night you make an end of me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

is removed

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Psalm 89:45-47 Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. . . .

Psalm 102:11,23,24 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. . . .

as a

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.

Isaiah 13:20 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.

have cut

Job 7:6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Job 9:25,26 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. . . .

Job 14:2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

he will cut

Job 7:3-5 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. . . .

Job 17:1 My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

Psalm 31:22 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 119:23 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

with pining sickness.

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
11I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest. 12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:4
For we also, who are in this tabernacle, do groan, being burthened; because we would not be unclothed, but clothed upon, that that which is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

2 Peter 1:13
But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

2 Peter 1:14
Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

Job 4:20
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

Job 6:9
And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Job 7:6
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Psalm 31:22
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 73:14
And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

Isaiah 38:11
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