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Isa 38:12 Strong Concordance Mine age [01755] is departed [05265], and is removed [01540] from me as a shepherd's [07473] tent [0168]: I have cut off [07088] like a weaver [0707] my life [02416]: he will cut me off [01214] with pining sickness [01803]: from day [03117] even to night [03915] wilt thou make an end [07999] of me.
  King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
age--rather, as the parallel "shepherd's tent" requires habitation, so the Arabic [GESENIUS].

departed--is broken up, or shifted, as a tent to a different locality. The same image occurs (Co2 5:1; Pe2 1:12-13). He plainly expects to exist, and not cease to be in another state; as the shepherd still lives, after he has struck his tent and removed elsewhere.

I have cut off--He attributes to himself that which is God's will with respect to him; because he declares that will. So Jeremiah is said to "root out" kingdoms, because he declares God's purpose of doing so (Jer 1:10). The weaver cuts off his web from the loom when completed. Job 7:6 has a like image. The Greeks represented the Fates as spinning and cutting off the threads of each man's life.

he--God.

with pining sickness--rather, "from the thrum," or thread, which tied the loom to the weaver's beam.

from day . . . to night--that is, in the space of a single day between morning and night (Job 4:20).
 
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20 They are destroyed [03807] from morning [01242] to evening [06153]: they perish [06] for ever [05331] without any regarding [07760] it.
6 My days [03117] are swifter [07043] than a weaver's shuttle [0708], and are spent [03615] without [0657] hope [08615].
10 See [07200], I have this day [03117] set [06485] thee over the nations [01471] and over the kingdoms [04467], to root out [05428], and to pull down [05422], and to destroy [06], and to throw down [02040], to build [01129], and to plant [05193].
12 Wherefore [1352] I will [272] not [3756] be negligent [272] to put [5279] you [5209] always [104] in remembrance [5279] of [4012] these things [5130], though [2539] ye know [1492] them, and [2532] be established [4741] in [1722] the present [3918] truth [225].
13 Yea [1161], I think it [2233] meet [1342], as long as [1909] [3745] I am [1510] in [1722] this [5129] tabernacle [4638], to stir [1326] you [5209] up [1326] by [1722] putting you in remembrance [5280];
1 For [1063] we know [1492] that [3754] if [1437] our [2257] earthly [1919] house [3614] of this tabernacle [4636] were dissolved [2647], we have [2192] a building [3619] of [1537] God [2316], an house [3614] not made with hands [886], eternal [166] in [1722] the heavens [3772].
6 How fair [03302] and how pleasant [05276] art thou, O love [0160], for delights [08588]!
1 Now will I sing [07891] to my wellbeloved [03039] a song [07892] of my beloved [01730] touching his vineyard [03754]. My wellbeloved [03039] hath a vineyard [03754] in a very fruitful [01121] [08081] hill [07161]: