Isaiah 38:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

My [fleshly] dwelling is plucked up and is removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web]; [the Lord] cuts me free from the loom; from day to night You bring me to an end.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

My lifetime is plucked up and taken from me like a shepherd’s tent. My life is shriveled like woven cloth; God cuts me off from the loom. Between daybreak and nightfall you carry out your verdict against me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 cut me off. From morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:12 Cross References

Job 14:2

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

Job 17:1

My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.

Job 4:20

Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it

Job 6:9

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

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 119:23

Princes also sat and talked against me: But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Psalm 31:22

As for me, 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.

Psalm 73:14

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

Psalm 90:5

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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 shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

2 Corinthians 5:1

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

2 Corinthians 5:4

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Hebrews 1:12

And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.

James 4:14

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