He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.
Isaiah 38:12 - 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. 更多版本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. 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. English Standard Version 2016 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end; |
He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.
My spirit will be wasted, my days will be shortened, and only the grave will left for me.
From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.
and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down?
For according to the height of the heavens above the earth, so has he reinforced his mercy toward those who fear him.
You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.
His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night,
And the daughter of Zion will be left behind, like an arbor in a vineyard, and like a shelter in a cucumber field, and like a city being laid to waste.
It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.
For we know that, when our earthly house of this habitation is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.
Then too, we who are in this tabernacle groan under the burden, because we do not want to be stripped, but rather to be clothed from above, so that what is mortal may be absorbed by life.
And you will change them like a cloak, and they shall be changed. Yet you are ever the same, and your years will not diminish."