Isaiah 38:12

New Century Version

Like a shepherd’s tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end.

Cross References

Job 14:2

We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.

Job 17:1

My spirit is broken; the days of my life are almost gone. The grave is waiting for me.

Job 4:20

Between dawn and sunset many people are broken to pieces; without being noticed, they die and are gone forever.

Job 6:9

How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.

Psalm 119:23

Even if princes speak against me, I, your servant, will think about your demands.

Psalm 31:22

In my distress, I said, “God cannot see me!” But you heard my prayer when I cried out to you for help.

Psalm 73:14

I have suffered all day long; I have been punished every morning.

Psalm 90:5

While people sleep, you take their lives. They are like grass that grows up in the morning.

Isaiah 1:8

Jerusalem is left alone like an empty shelter in a vineyard, like a hut left in a field of melons, like a city surrounded by enemies.

Isaiah 13:20

No one will ever live there or settle there again. No Arab will put a tent there; no shepherd will bring sheep there.

2 Corinthians 5:1

We know that our body—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a house for us. It will not be a house made by human hands; instead, it will be a home in heaven that will last forever.

2 Corinthians 5:4

While we live in this body, we have burdens, and we groan. We do not want to be naked, but we want to be clothed with our heavenly home. Then this body that dies will be fully covered with life.

Hebrews 1:12

You will fold them like a coat. And, like clothes, you will change them. But you never change, and your life will never end.”

James 4:14

But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.