Isaiah 38:12
Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חֶלֶד
cheled
life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient)
נָסַע
nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
נָסַע
nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
רָעָה
râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a frien...
אֹהֶל
ʼôhel
a tent (as clearly conspicuous from a distance)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
דְּאָבָה
dᵉʼâbâh
properly, pining; by analogy, fear
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
לַיִל
layil
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
קֵץ
qêts
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
Key Terms in This Verse
חֶלֶד cheled
life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient)
Study H2465 →רָעָה râʻâh
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
Study H7462 →נָסַע nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
Study H5265 →נָסַע nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
Study H5265 →לַיִל layil
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
Study H3915 →Cross References
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
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.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
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.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
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 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.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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.
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