Isaiah 38 · Verse 12

Isaiah 38:12

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.
Isaiah 38:12, King James Version

Isaiah 38:12 in other translations

BSBMy 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.
WEBMy 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.
ASVMy 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.
YLTMy 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.
DARBYMine 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.
BBEMy 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.
WebsterMy age hath 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.

What does Isaiah 38:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:9-20

9-20. 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.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 Mine 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 Isa 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 "My life is cut off as by the weaver" - קפדתי kippadti. This verb is rendered passively, and in the third person, by the Syriac, Chaldee, and Vulgate.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 38:9-22

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…

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Isaiah 38:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

דּוֹרִ֗יdo.Ridwelling-place myH1755
נִסַּ֧עni.Sa'it has been pulled upH5265
וְנִגְלָ֛הve.nig.Lahand it has been removedH1540
מִנִּ֖יmi.Nifrom meH4480
כְּאֹ֣הֶלke.'O.hellike [the] tent ofH168
רֹעִ֑יro.'Ishepherd myH7462
קִפַּ֨דְתִּיki.Pad.tiI have rolled upH7088
כָאֹרֵ֤גkha.'o.Reglike <the> weaverH707
חַיַּי֙chai.Yailife myH2416
מִדַּלָּ֣הmi.da.Lahfrom [the] loomH1803
יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִיye.va.tze.'E.nihe cuts off meH1214
מִיּ֥וֹםmi.Yomfrom dayH3117
עַד\־'ad-untoH5704
לַ֖יְלָהLay.lahnightH3915
תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי\׃tash.li.Me.niyou make an end of meH7999

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 38:12

  • 2 Corinthians 5:1

    For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  • Hebrews 1:12

    And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

  • Psalms 73:14

    For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

  • Isaiah 13:20

    It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

  • James 4:14

    Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Job 7:3-7

    So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. …

  • Psalms 102:11

    My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • Job 6:9

    Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  • 2 Corinthians 5:4

    For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

  • Job 14:2

    He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • Psalms 102:23-24

    He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

  • Job 9:25-26

    Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
is removed.
Job 7:7; Ps 89:45-47; 102:11,23,24
as a.
1:8; 13:20
have cut.
Job 7:6; 9:25,26; 14:2; Jas 4:14
he will cut.
Job 7:3-5; 17:1; Ps 31:22; 119:23
with pining sickness. or, from the thrum.

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Context

  • Isaiah 38:11

    I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Isaiah 38:12

    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.

  • Isaiah 38:13

    I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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Isaiah 38:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mi morada ha sido movida y traspasada de mí, como tienda de pastor. Como el tejedor corté mi vida; cortaráme con la enfermedad; me consumirás entre el día y la noche.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ma durée s’en est allée, et elle est transportée loin de moi comme une tente de berger. J’ai, comme le tisserand, coupé ma vie;… il me séparera de la penne; du jour à la nuit, tu en auras fini avec moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Meine Wohnung ist abgebrochen und ward von mir weggeführt wie ein Hirtenzelt. Ich habe, dem Weber gleich, mein Leben aufgerollt: vom Trumme schnitt er mich los. Vom Tage bis zur Nacht wirst du ein Ende mit mir machen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		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.