He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Isaiah 38:12 - King James Version - American Edition 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
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.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
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.
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.
For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
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.
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.