Isaiah 38:12 “My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s t…”

Isaiah 38:12

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine habitation is departed, and is remoued from me, like a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut me off from the height: from day to night, thou wilt make an ende of me.

Darby Translation

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: — from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

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.

Bible in Basic English

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

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Cross references

“is removed”

Psalm 89:45–47 Psalm 102:11 Job 7:7 Psalm 102:23 Psalm 102:24

Psalm 89:45–47 · BSB

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Psalm 102:11 · BSB

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Job 7:7 · BSB

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Psalm 102:23 · BSB

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

Psalm 102:24 · BSB

I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

“as a”

Isaiah 1:8 Isaiah 13:20

Isaiah 1:8 · BSB

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Isaiah 13:20 · BSB

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.

“have cut”

Job 14:2 James 4:14 Job 7:6 Job 9:25 Job 9:26

Job 14:2 · BSB

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

James 4:14 · BSB

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.

Job 7:6 · BSB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 9:25 · BSB

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 9:26 · BSB

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

“he will cut”

Job 17:1 Psalm 31:22 Psalm 119:23 Job 7:3–5

Job 17:1 · BSB

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

Psalm 31:22 · BSB

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.

Psalm 119:23 · BSB

Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

Job 7:3–5 · BSB

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

Also

2 Corinthians 5:1 Hebrews 1:12 Psalm 73:14 Job 6:9 2 Peter 1:13–14 2 Corinthians 5:4

2 Corinthians 5:1 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 73:14 · BSB

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

Job 6:9 · BSB

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

2 Peter 1:13–14 · BSB

I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,

2 Corinthians 5:4 · BSB

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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.

13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

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