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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
age	דּוֹרִ֗י do.Ri	H1755	properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
departed	נִסַּ֧ע ni.Sa'	H5265	properly · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
removed	וְנִגְלָ֛ה ve.nig.Lah	H1540	to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense) · conjunction + verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
shepherd’s	רֹעִי rôʻîy	H7473	pastoral
tent	כְּאֹ֣הֶל ke.'O.hel	H168	a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
off	קִפַּ֨דְתִּי ki.Pad.ti	H7088	to contract · verb, piel perfect, 1st person common singular
weaver	כָאֹרֵ֤ג kha.'o.Reg	H707	to plait or weave · preposition with the article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
life	חַיַּי֙ chai.Yai	H2416	alive · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
off	יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִי ye.va.tze.'E.ni	H1214	figuratively · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
sickness	מִדַּלָּ֣ה mi.da.Lah	H1803	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
day	מִיּ֥וֹם mi.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
night	לַ֖יְלָה Lay.lah	H3915	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
end	תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי tash.li.Me.ni	H7999	to be safe (in mind · verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix

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Cross-references

Psalms 73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
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…
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.
Job 4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:3-7 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 9:25-26 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:9–end

We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, Ch2 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of divine inspiration, but would offer up his affections in his own words, which is most natural and genuine. He put this thanksgiving in writing, that he might review it himself afterwards, for the reviving of the good im…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:12

age--rather, as the parallel "shepherd's tent" requires habitation, so the Arabic [GESENIUS]. departed--is broken up, or shifted, as a tent to a different locality. The same image occurs (Co2 5:1; Pe2 1:12-13). He plainly expects to exist, and not cease to be in another state; as the shepherd still lives, after he has struck his tent and removed elsewhere. I have cut off--He attributes to himself that which is God's will with respect to him; because he declares that will. So Jeremiah is said to "root out" kingdoms, because he declares God's purpose of doing so (Jer 1:10). The weaver cuts off his web from the loom when completed. Job 7:6 has a like image. The Greeks represented the Fates…

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John Gill on Isaiah 38:12

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent,.... Or, my habitation (k); meaning the earthly house of his tabernacle, his body; this was just going, in his apprehension, to be unpinned, and removed like a shepherd's tent, that is easily taken down, and removed from place to place. Some understand it of the men of his age or generation; so the Targum, "from the children of my generation my days are taken away; they are cut off, and removed from me; they are rolled up as a shepherd's tent;'' which being made of skins, as tents frequently were, such as the Arabian shepherds used, were soon taken down, and easily rolled and folded up and carried elsewhere: I have cut off…

The Church Fathers

It has gone out and gone away from me, as one takes down the tent which he had pitched; meaning: And so completely has my former overweening arrogance departed from me, that I am like one, who, after having pitched a tent, forthwith takes it down again. The breath within me is as when a weaver is preparing to cut away the web from the loom; meaning: My very soul had all but left me, just as when the web of a woman who is weaving is ready to be cut
— Cosmas Indicopleustes, The Christian Topography, Book 8

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Dictionary and topics

Herdsman — In Egypt herdsmen were probably of the lowest caste. Some of Joseph’s brethren were made rulers over Pharaoh’s cattle (Gen. 47:6, 17). The Israelites were known in Egypt as “keepers of cattle;” and…
Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Shepherd — A word naturally of frequent occurence in Scripture. Sometimes the word “pastor” is used instead (Jer. 2:8; 3:15; 10:21; 12:10; 17:16). This word is used figuratively to represent the relation of…
Tent — (1.) Heb. ‘ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings…
Weaving, weavers — Weaving was an art practised in very early times (Ex. 35:35). The Egyptians were specially skilled in it (Isa. 19:9; Ezek. 27:7), and some have regarded them as its inventors. In the wilderness, the…
Hezekiah · .His psalm of thanksgiving — .His psalm of thanksgiving
Life · BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF — BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF
Life, Natural · Is compared to: A thread cut by the weaver — Is compared to: A thread cut by the weaver
Murmuring · .Hezekiah — .Hezekiah
Shepherds · Dwelt in tents while tending their flocks — Dwelt in tents while tending their flocks
Sickness · Saints: Acknowledge that, comes from God — Saints: Acknowledge that, comes from God

Isaiah 38:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:9–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:12

John Gill on Isaiah 38:12

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 38:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:9–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:12

John Gill on Isaiah 38:12

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 38:12

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 38:10-12

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 38:12

Rashi on Isaiah 38:12