Isaiah 38:12
“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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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
I reckoned till morning,.... Or, "I set my time till the morning (m)"; he fixed and settled it in his mind that he could…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Mine age - The word which is used here (דור dôr) means properly the revolving period or circle of human life. The…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Isaiah 38:9-22
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
Figures setting forth the utter frustration of his hope of life. The first is that of a nomad's tent, easily pitched and…
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