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Isaiah 38:12
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10 I said,
“In the prime of my life
I shall go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”
11 I said,
“I shall not see1 Yah,
The Lord ain the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more1 among the inhabitants of the world. 
12 aMy life span is gone,
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have cut off my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me. 
13 I have considered until morning—
Like a lion,
So He breaks all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.
14 Like a crane o1r a swallow, so I chattered;
aI mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed;
1Undertake for me! 
15 “What shall I say?
1He has both spoken to me,
And He Himself has done it.
I shall walk carefully all my years
aIn the bitterness of my soul. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 38:12

Mine age - is removed from me as a shepherd' s tent - roi is put for roeh , say the rabbis (Sal. Den Melec on the place); but much more probably is written imperfectly for roim , shepherds. See note on Isaiah 5:1.

I shall be removed from this state to another, as a shepherd removes his tent from one place to another for the sake of his flock. Is not this a strong intimation of his belief in a future state?

I have cut off like a weaver my life " My life is cut off as by the weaver " - kippadti . This verb is rendered passively, and in the third person, by the Syriac, Chaldee, and Vulgate.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 38:12:

2 Kings 20:3
Job 7:6

 

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