Isaiah 38:12

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 38:12 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
  2. Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
  3. Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
  4. Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
  5. Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
  6. Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
  7. Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
  8. 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.
  9. Psalms 73:14For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
  10. Psalms 89:45You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
  11. Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
  12. Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
  13. Psalms 102:23He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.
  14. Psalms 119:23Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 2 Corinthians 5:1Now 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.
  18. 2 Corinthians 5:4So 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.
  19. Hebrews 1:12You 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.”
  20. 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.
  21. 2 Peter 1:13I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,

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