My age hath departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I (i) have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] (k) to night wilt thou make an end of me.
(i) By my sin I have provoked God to take my life from me.
(k) That is, in one day, or shortly.
Verse Isaiah 38:12. _MINE AGE - IS REMOVED FROM ME AS A SHEPHERD'S TENT_] רעי roi is put for רעה _roeh_, say the rabbis (_Sal. ben Melec_ on the place;) but much more probably is written imperfectly f...
MINE AGE - The word which is used here (דור _dôr_) means properly the revolving period or circle of human life. The parallelism seems to demand, however, that it should be used in the sense of dwelli...
CHAPTER 38 Hezekiah's Sickness and Healing 1. _Isaiah's startling message (Isaiah 38:1)_ 2. _Hezekiah's prayer (Isaiah 38:2)_ 3. _The prayer heard and the sign (Isaiah 38:4)_ 4. The king's sorrow and...
ISAIAH 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with th...
AGE. Hebrew. _dor_. generation, or succession. LIKE. WEAVER. Supply Ellipsis thus: "like. weaver [his thread]. "See note on "weave" (Isaiah 19:9)....
Hezekiah's thanksgiving for his recovery. This poem, which is not given in the parallel narrative in 2 Kings, must have been inserted here from an independent source. An external mark of the insertion...
Figures setting forth the utter frustration of his hope of life. The first is that of a nomad's tent, easily pitched and soon removed. _Mine age is departed_ Render: MY HABITATION IS PLUCKED UP (Cheyn...
MINE AGE IS DEPARTED— _My habitation is taken away, and is removed from me, like a shepherd's tent: my life is cut off, as by the weaver; he will sever me from the loom; in the course of the day thou...
2. PRAISE TEXT: Isaiah 38:9-20 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates o...
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: -The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of 2...
38:12 age (d-2) Or 'duration.' weaver (e-20) Or 'rolled together as the weaver.'...
CUT OFF] RV 'rolled up.' WITH PINING SICKNESS] RV 'from the loom.' FROM DAY.. NIGHT] i.e. in one day. The words refer to the swiftness with which the end comes, not to prolongation of suffering....
SICKNESS AND RECOVERY OF HEZEKIAH Continuation of the historical appendix to Isaiah's prophecies. The chapter is parallel to 2 Kings 20:1 (where see notes), but contains a considerable addition in the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 38 HEZEKIAH IS SERIOUSLY ILL V1 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. He believe...
Hezekiah’s illness made him feel very depressed. (In other words, his inner feelings were deeply sad.) And this affected all of his life. Verses 10 and 18 Like many people at that time, Hezekiah tho...
MINE AGE IS DEPARTED... — Better, _my home,_ or _habitation_ ... as in Psalms 49:19, and thus fitting in better with the similitude that follows. The “home” is, of course, the body, as the dwelling-pl...
דֹּורִ֗י נִסַּ֧ע וְ נִגְלָ֛ה מִנִּ֖י כְּ אֹ֣ה
BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33, wi...
CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
In this chapter we have the story of the sickness of Hezekiah. That sickness would seem to have been intimately connected with the invasion of Sennacherib, for in Isaiah's message to Hezekiah that his...
12._My dwelling is departed. _He proceeds in his complaints, by painting his life under a beautiful metaphor; for he compares it to _a shepherd’s tent. _Such indeed is the condition of human life in g...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39. Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...
MINE AGE IS DEPARTED, AND IS REMOVED FROM ME AS A SHEPHERD'S TENT,.... Or, my habitation k; meaning the earthly house of his tabernacle, his body; this was just going, in his apprehension, to be unpin...
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....
_Mine age is departed_ The time of my life is expired; _and is removed as a shepherd's tent_ Which is easily and speedily removed: _I have cut off_ Namely, by my sins, provoking God to do it; or, I ha...
Mine age is departed, broken off, removed, folded up, AND IS REMOVED FROM ME AS A SHEPHERD'S TENT, which is quickly pitched and as quickly taken down; I HAVE CUT OFF, LIKE A WEAVER, MY LIFE, rolling i...
Hezekiah's Hymn of Praise...
WITH A PINING SICKNESS: Or, From the thrum...
9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lor...
MINE AGE IS DEPARTED; the time of my life is expired. AS A SHEPHERD'S TENT, which is easily and speedily removed. I HAVE CUT OFF, to wit, by my sins, provoking God to do it. Or, I do declare, and have...
Isaiah 38:12 span H1755 gone H5265 (H8738) Taken H1540 (H8738) shepherds H7473 tent H168 off H7088 ...
HEZEKIAH'S PSALM OF PRAISE (ISAIAH 38:9). Isaiah 38:9 ‘The writing of Hezekiah the king of Judah when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness.' This was clearly originally a record on i...
CONTENTS: Hezekiah's sickness and recovery in answer to prayer. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: Neither men's greatness nor goodness will exempt them from the arrests of sickness. If o...
Isaiah 38:1. _Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live._ This burden of the Lord placed the prophet in a critical situation. God saw that nothing milder than this harsh and tremendou...
_As a shepherd’s tent_ THE INCONSTANCY OF EARTHLY LIFE He saith “a shepherd’s tent,” because that represents the inconstancy and uncertainty of our life, more than any other tent. The soldier’s ten...
_The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah_ HEZEKIAH’S RECOVERY 1. He was sick, and then he prayed. 2. He is recovered, and now he gives thanks. (_R. Harris, D. D._) HEZEKIAH’S SONG I. THE INSCRIPT...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 38:9 Hezekiah’s psalm is clear about this truth: God alone has the power of life and death, and he prefers life. ⇐...
HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER Isaiah 38:1 In this narrative there are three points of difficulty and many points of instruction. I. THREE POINTS OF DIFFICULTY. 1. _Why was Hezekiah afraid to die?_ Answer: (1.)...
SECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN (Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1.). EXPOSITION The present chapte
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live (Isai...
Isaiah 1:8; Isaiah 13:20; James 4:14; Job 14:2; Job 17:1;...