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Isaiah 38:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Isaiah 38:12

Verse 12 of 22

Scripture focus

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.

Isaiah 38:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 38:12

Theological / Devotional

Mine age. Perhaps, “my habitation,” or “my dwelling,” a nomad’s “tent,” which can readily be moved from place to place. According to the figure Hezekiah’s abode would be removed from the land of the living to that of the dead (see 2 Cor. 5:1-3; cf. Phil. 1:23).

Cut off. Literally, “rolled up.” Hezekiah has been weaving the web of life, but the pattern is now to be changed, and he must roll up the web before the pattern has been completed, and cut it from the loom. In this figure Hezekiah expresses his disappointment and frustration at the prospect of prematurely terminating what seems to him a half-completed task.

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