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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. <a href="/nlt/isaiah/38.htm">New Living Translation</a> My life has been blown away like a shepherd’s tent in a storm. It has been cut short, as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom. Suddenly, my life was over. <a href="/esv/isaiah/38.htm">English Standard Version</a> 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; <a href="/bsb/isaiah/38.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/38.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/38.htm">New King James Version</a> 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. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/38.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “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. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/38.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Like a shepherd&#8217s 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. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/38.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “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 Thou dost make an end of me. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/38.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> 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. <a href="/amp/isaiah/38.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “My dwelling (body) is pulled up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web]. He cuts me free from the warp [of the loom]; From day to night You bring me to an end. <a href="/csb/isaiah/38.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> My dwelling is plucked 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. By nightfall you make an end of me. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/38.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd&#8217s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. You make an end of me from day until night. <a href="/asv/isaiah/38.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/isaiah/38.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> 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. <a href="/erv/isaiah/38.htm">English Revised Version</a> Mine age 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. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/38.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/38.htm">Good News Translation</a> 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. <a href="/isv/isaiah/38.htm">International Standard Version</a> My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom— day and night you make an end of me. <a href="/msb/isaiah/38.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/net/isaiah/38.htm">NET Bible</a> My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/38.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/38.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> My 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. <a href="/web/isaiah/38.htm">World English Bible</a> 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/38.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> My sojourning has departed, "" And been removed from me as a shepherd’s tent, "" I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, "" By weakness it cuts me off, "" From day to night You end me. <a href="/ylt/isaiah/38.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 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. <a href="/slt/isaiah/38.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Mine age removed, and was carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I rolled together as a weaver my life: from the thread he will cut me off: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/38.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> 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 out me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/38.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> My longevity has been taken away; it has been folded up and taken from me, like the tent of a shepherd. My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver. While I was still beginning, he cut me off. From morning until evening, you have marked out my limits. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/38.htm">New American Bible</a> 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; <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/38.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> 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;<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/38.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> My age is departed and removed from me as a shepherd's tent; my life has shrunk like a shoelace and as a weaver's web which is nearly ready to be cut off; from morning even to night thou hast delivered me to my fate. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/38.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> My age is removed and passes by from me like a Shepherd’s tent. They are cut off like the cords of my life and like a web that is near to being cut off. You handed me over from day to night<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/38.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> My habitation is plucked up and 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 thrum; From day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me. <a href="/sep/isaiah/38.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/38-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=8210" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/38.htm">Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving</a> …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. 12<a href="/hebrew/1755.htm" title="1755: dō·w·rî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- Period, generation, dwelling. Or dor; from duwr; properly, a revolution of time, i.e. An age or generation; also a dwelling.">My dwelling</a> <a href="/hebrew/5265.htm" title="5265: nis·sa‘ (V-Nifal-Perf-3ms) -- To pull out or up, set out, journey. A primitive root; properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. Start on a journey.">has been picked up</a> <a href="/hebrew/1540.htm" title="1540: wə·niḡ·lāh (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To uncover, remove. A primitive root; to denude; by implication, to exile; figuratively, to reveal.">and removed</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min·nî (Prep:: 1cs) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">from me</a> <a href="/hebrew/7462.htm" title="7462: rō·‘î (V-Qal-Prtcpl-msc:: 1cs) -- A primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. Pasture it; intransitively, to graze; generally to rule; by extension, to associate with.">like a shepherd’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/168.htm" title="168: kə·’ō·hel (Prep-k:: N-msc) -- A tent. From 'ahal; a tent.">tent.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7088.htm" title="7088: qip·paḏ·tî (V-Piel-Perf-1cs) -- Gather together, roll up. A primitive root; to contract, i.e. Roll together.">I have rolled up</a> <a href="/hebrew/2416.htm" title="2416: ḥay·yay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life. From chayah; alive; hence, raw; fresh, strong; also life, whether literally or figuratively.">my life</a> <a href="/hebrew/707.htm" title="707: ḵā·’ō·rêḡ (Prep-k, Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To weave. A primitive root; to plait or weave.">like a weaver;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1214.htm" title="1214: yə·ḇaṣ·ṣə·‘ê·nî (V-Piel-Imperf-3ms:: 1cs) -- To cut off, break off, gain by violence. A primitive root to break off, i.e. plunder; figuratively, to finish, or stop.">He cuts me off</a> <a href="/hebrew/1803.htm" title="1803: mid·dal·lāh (Prep-m:: N-fs) -- From dalah; properly, something dangling, i.e. A loose thread or hair; figuratively, indigent.">from the loom;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: mî·yō·wm (Prep-m:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">from day</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/3915.htm" title="3915: lay·lāh (N-ms) -- Night. Or leyl; also laylah; from the same as luwl; properly, a twist, i.e. Night; figuratively, adversity.">night</a> <a href="/hebrew/7999.htm" title="7999: taš·lî·mê·nî (V-Hifil-Imperf-2ms:: 1cs) -- A primitive root; to be safe; figuratively, to be completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate.">You make an end of me.</a> 13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/job/7-6.htm">Job 7:6</a> My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. <a href="/psalms/102-11.htm">Psalm 102:11</a> My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass. <a href="/psalms/39-4.htm">Psalm 39:4-5</a> “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. / You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah <a href="/2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1-4</a> 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. / For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, / because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ... <a href="/job/14-2.htm">Job 14:2</a> Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. <a href="/james/4-14.htm">James 4:14</a> 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. <a href="/psalms/90-5.htm">Psalm 90:5-6</a> You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— / in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers. <a href="/2_peter/1-13.htm">2 Peter 1:13-14</a> I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body, / because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. <a href="/job/9-25.htm">Job 9:25-26</a> My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good. / They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. <a href="/psalms/144-4.htm">Psalm 144:4</a> Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. <a href="/hebrews/11-13.htm">Hebrews 11:13</a> All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. <a href="/1_peter/1-24.htm">1 Peter 1:24</a> For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-5.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:5</a> when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets. <a href="/2_timothy/4-6.htm">2 Timothy 4:6</a> For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. <a href="/psalms/103-15.htm">Psalm 103:15-16</a> As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field; / when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>My 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 will you make an end of me.is removed<a href="/job/7-7.htm">Job 7:7</a> O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.<a href="/psalms/89-45.htm">Psalm 89:45-47</a> The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah… <a href="/psalms/102-11.htm">Psalm 102:11,23,24</a> My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass… as a<a href="/isaiah/1-8.htm">Isaiah 1:8</a> And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.<a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm">Isaiah 13:20</a> 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.have cut<a href="/job/7-6.htm">Job 7:6</a> My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.<a href="/job/9-25.htm">Job 9:25,26</a> Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good… <a href="/job/14-2.htm">Job 14:2</a> He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.he will cut<a href="/job/7-3.htm">Job 7:3-5</a> So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me… <a href="/job/17-1.htm">Job 17:1</a> My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.<a href="/psalms/31-22.htm">Psalm 31:22</a> For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.with pining sickness.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/34-17.htm">Age</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-38.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-37.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-24.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-12.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-7.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm">Life</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-14.htm">Night</a> <a href="/psalms/6-2.htm">Pining</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-7.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-4.htm">Rolled</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-40.htm">Shepherd's</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm">Sickness</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-20.htm">Tent</a> <a href="/exodus/39-29.htm">Weaver</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/46-4.htm">Age</a> <a href="/isaiah/39-6.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-14.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-23.htm">Departed</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-15.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm">Life</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm">Night</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-25.htm">Pining</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-2.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-11.htm">Rolled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-12.htm">Shepherd's</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-4.htm">Sickness</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm">Tent</a> <a href="/exodus/26-36.htm">Weaver</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 38</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/38-1.htm">Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened</a> 8. <a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm">The sun goes ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise</a> 9. <a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm">His song of thanksgiving.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/38.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/38.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. This phrase reflects the transient nature of life, akin to a shepherd's tent that is easily set up and taken down. In the ancient Near East, shepherds were nomadic, moving their tents frequently to find pasture for their flocks. This imagery emphasizes the temporary and fragile state of human existence. The context here is King Hezekiah's illness and his reflection on the brevity of life. The tent metaphor is also used in other scriptures, such as <a href="/2_corinthians/5.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1</a>, where Paul speaks of our earthly bodies as tents, highlighting the temporary nature of our earthly existence compared to the eternal dwelling with God.I have rolled up my life like a weaver; The imagery of a weaver rolling up fabric signifies the completion of a task. In ancient times, weaving was a common occupation, and the process of rolling up the finished cloth was a natural conclusion to the work. This metaphor suggests that Hezekiah sees his life as a completed work, ready to be finished. The weaver's imagery is also found in <a href="/job/7-6.htm">Job 7:6</a>, where Job laments the swiftness of his days, comparing them to a weaver's shuttle. This connection underscores the theme of life's brevity and the inevitability of death.He cuts me off from the loom; This phrase indicates an abrupt end to life, as if the weaver's work is suddenly cut from the loom before its intended completion. In the context of Hezekiah's illness, it reflects his fear of dying prematurely. The cutting off from the loom can be seen as a divine intervention, where God determines the length of one's life. This concept is echoed in <a href="/psalms/31-15.htm">Psalm 31:15</a>, where the psalmist acknowledges that his times are in God's hands, reinforcing the belief in God's sovereignty over life and death.from day until night You make an end of me. This expression conveys the rapid passage of time, from morning to evening, symbolizing the swift approach of death. In the cultural context, a day was often seen as a complete cycle of life, from birth to death. Hezekiah's lament here is a plea for God's mercy, as he feels his life is being cut short. The phrase also reflects the biblical theme of human mortality, as seen in <a href="/psalms/90-6.htm">Psalm 90:6</a>, where life is compared to grass that flourishes in the morning and withers by evening. This serves as a reminder of the fleeting nature of life and the urgency to live righteously.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/h/hezekiah.htm">Hezekiah</a> The king of Judah who is the speaker in this passage. Hezekiah was known for his faithfulness to God and his reforms to restore proper worship in Judah. 2. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> The prophet who delivered God's messages to Hezekiah, including the prophecy of his illness and recovery. 3. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The city where Hezekiah reigned and where these events took place. 4. <a href="/topical/s/shepherd's_tent.htm">Shepherd’s Tent</a> A metaphor used by Hezekiah to describe the temporary and fragile nature of human life. 5. <a href="/topical/w/weaver's_loom.htm">Weaver’s Loom</a> Another metaphor illustrating the brevity and fragility of life, as well as the idea of life being cut short unexpectedly.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_fragility_of_life.htm">The Fragility of Life</a> Life is temporary and fragile, much like a shepherd’s tent or a weaver’s cloth. We should live with an awareness of our mortality and the urgency it brings to our spiritual lives. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_life.htm">God’s Sovereignty Over Life</a> Just as a weaver controls the loom, God has control over the span of our lives. Trusting in His sovereignty can bring peace amidst uncertainty. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_prayer.htm">The Importance of Prayer</a> Hezekiah’s response to his illness was to pray fervently. In times of crisis, turning to God in prayer should be our first response. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_promises.htm">Hope in God’s Promises</a> Despite the dire situation, Hezekiah’s account reminds us that God hears our prayers and can intervene in miraculous ways. <a href="/topical/r/reflecting_on_our_legacy.htm">Reflecting on Our Legacy</a> Considering the temporary nature of life, we should reflect on the legacy we are leaving behind and strive to live in a way that honors God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_38.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 38</a> <a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_38_align_with_divine_decrees.htm">How can Isaiah 38's account of God extending Hezekiah's life align with other biblical teachings on divine decrees?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_jesus_tell_them_to_buy_swords.htm">In Luke 22:36, why does Jesus instruct His followers to buy swords if His message is peace?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_33_16_align_with_righteous_suffering.htm">How does the promise of safety in Isaiah 33:16 align with observable instances of righteous people facing disaster historically?</a> <a href="/q/was_jesus_given_a_last_name.htm">What does 'God with us' mean regarding Jesus?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/38.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) Mine age is departed . . .--Better, my home, or habitation . . . as in <a href="/psalms/49-19.htm" title="He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.">Psalm 49:19</a>, and thus fitting in better with the similitude that follows. The "home" is, of course, the body, as the dwelling-place of the spirit. (Comp. <a href="/psalms/52-5.htm" title="God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.">Psalm 52:5</a>, "hurl thee away tentless," Heb., and <a href="/job/21-28.htm" title="For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?">Job 21:28</a>, "Is not their tent-cord torn away?" Heb.) The "shepherd's tent" is the type of a transitory home (<a href="/context/2_corinthians/5-1.htm" title="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.">2Corinthians 5:1-4</a>).I have cut off like a weaver my life . . .--The words express the feeling of one who had been weaving the web of his life with varied plans and counsels (comp. <a href="/isaiah/30-1.htm" title="Woe to the rebellious children, said the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:">Isaiah 30:1</a>), and now had to roll it up, as finished before its time, because Jehovah had taken up the "abhorred shears" to cut it from the thrum, which takes the place of "with pining sickness." There is, perhaps, a tone of reverence in the impersonal form of the statement. The sufferer will not name Jehovah as the author of his trouble. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/38.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 12. - Mine age is departed; rather, my dwelling is plucked up. The body seems to be viewed as the dwelling-place of the soul. Hezekiah's is to be taken from him, and carried far away, like a shepherd's tent, while he, his true self, i.e. his soul, is left bare and naked (comp. <a href="/2_corinthians/5-1.htm">2 Corinthians 5:1-4</a>). I have cut off like a weaver my life; rather, I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. The careful weaver rolls up the web, as it advances, to keep it clean and free from dust. Hezekiah had been equally careful of his life; he had about half finished it, when lo! "Jehovah takes up the fatal scissors" (Cheyne), and severs the unfinished cloth from the loom (compare the Greek myth of Clotho, Laehesis, and Atropos). With pining sickness; rather, as in the margin, from the thrum. The "thrum" is the portion of the warp which adjoins the upper bar of the loom. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/38-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>My dwelling דּוֹרִ֗י (dō·w·rî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1755.htm">Strong's 1755: </a> A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling has been picked up נִסַּ֧ע (nis·sa‘) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5265.htm">Strong's 5265: </a> To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey and removed וְנִגְלָ֛ה (wə·niḡ·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1540.htm">Strong's 1540: </a> To denude, to exile, to reveal from me מִנִּ֖י (min·nî) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> A part of, from, out of like a shepherd’s רֹעִ֑י (rō·‘î) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7473.htm">Strong's 7473: </a> Pastoral, a shepherd tent. כְּאֹ֣הֶל (kə·’ō·hel) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_168.htm">Strong's 168: </a> A tent I have rolled up קִפַּ֨דְתִּי (qip·paḏ·tî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7088.htm">Strong's 7088: </a> To contract, roll together my life חַיַּי֙ (ḥay·yay) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2416.htm">Strong's 2416: </a> Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life like a weaver; כָאֹרֵ֤ג (ḵā·’ō·rêḡ) Preposition-k, Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_707.htm">Strong's 707: </a> To plait, weave He cuts me off יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִי (yə·ḇaṣ·ṣə·‘ê·nî) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1214.htm">Strong's 1214: </a> To cut off, break off, gain by violence from the loom. מִדַּלָּ֣ה (mid·dal·lāh) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1803.htm">Strong's 1803: </a> Something dangling, a loose thread, hair, indigent From day מִיּ֥וֹם (mî·yō·wm) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day until עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while night לַ֖יְלָה (lay·lāh) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3915.htm">Strong's 3915: </a> A twist, night, adversity You make an end of me. תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃ (taš·lî·mê·nî) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7999.htm">Strong's 7999: </a> To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/38-12.htm">Isaiah 38:12 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling is removed and is carried (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 38:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 38:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 38:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 38:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>