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Isaiah 38:12

World English Bible

My dwelling is removed,
and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
He will cut me off from the loom.
From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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Isaiah 38:12 in other translations

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.

Isaiah 38:12 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 38:12 in context

  1. 10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.
    I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
  2. 11I said, “I won’t see Yah,
    Yah in the land of the living.
    I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  3. 12My dwelling is removed,
    and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
    I have rolled up my life like a weaver.
    He will cut me off from the loom.
    From day even to night you will make an end of me.
  4. 13I waited patiently until morning.
    He breaks all my bones like a lion.
    From day even to night you will make an end of me.
  5. 14I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
    I moaned like a dove.
    My eyes weaken looking upward.
    Lord, I am oppressed.
    Be my security.”