Isaiah 38:12

Hezekiah compares his life to a tent struck and cloth cut from the loom. He feels his life being abruptly ended by God.

Cross-references · 19

• 2 Cor 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
• Heb 1:12You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years will not fail.”
• Ps 73:14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
• Ps 119:23Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
• Ps 102:23–24He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.
• Ps 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
• Ps 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
• Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
• Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
• Isa 1:8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
• Isa 13:20It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
• Job 7:3–7so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
• Job 9:25–26“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good.
• Job 6:9even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
• 2 Cor 5:4For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
• 2 Pet 1:13–14I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
• Job 17:1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.
• Ps 89:45–47You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

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