Isaiah 38:12

Conservative English Version

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.

Cross References

Job 14:2

We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

Job 17:1

My hopes have died, my time is up, and the grave is ready.

Job 4:20

Born after daybreak, you die before nightfall and disappear forever.

Job 6:9

and do away with me.

Psalm 102:11

My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.

Psalm 119:23

I keep thinking about your teachings, LORD, even if rulers plot against me.

Psalm 31:22

I was terrified and thought, "They've chased me far away from you!" But you answered my prayer when I shouted for help.

Psalm 73:14

I am sick all day, and I am punished each morning.

Psalm 90:5

You bring our lives to an end just like a dream. We are merely tender grass

Isaiah 1:8

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

Isaiah 13:20

No one will live in Babylon. Even nomads won't camp nearby, and shepherds won't let their sheep rest there.

2 Corinthians 5:1

Our bodies are like tents that we live in here on earth. But when these tents are destroyed, we know that God will give each of us a place to live. These homes will not be buildings that someone has made, but they are in heaven and will last forever.

2 Corinthians 5:4

These tents we now live in are like a heavy burden, and we groan. But we don't do this just because we want to leave these bodies that will die. It is because we want to change them for bodies that will never die.

Hebrews 1:12

You will roll them up like a robe and change them like a garment. But you are always the same, and you will live forever."

James 4:14

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.