Isaiah 38:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:14 : 14 I suffer all day long, and am punished every morning.”
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 Living by Faith, Not by Sight For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.
  • Heb 1:12 : 12 and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
  • 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder, 14 since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
  • Ps 89:45-47 : 45 You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame.(Selah) 46 How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire? 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 102:23-24 : 23 He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days. 24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.
  • Ps 119:23 : 23 Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.
  • Isa 13:20 : 20 No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.
  • Job 4:20 : 20 They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
  • Job 7:3-7 : 3 thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me. 4 If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns. 5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness. 26 They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
  • Ps 31:22 : 22 I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

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