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My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd`s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
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A Tent and a Weaver's Web
Hezekiah uses two powerful images for life's fragility. Commentators explain his life is like a shepherd's tent—a temporary dwelling easily removed. It is also like a weaver's web, which God can suddenly cut from the loom. These metaphors powerfully illustrate that our time on earth is brief, and our days are ultimately in God's hands.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My age - The word used here (דור dôr) properly means the revolving period or circle of human life. However, the p…
19th Century
Anglican
Mine age is departed ... —Better, my home, or habitation ... as in Psalm 49:19, and thus fittin…
16th Century
Protestant
My dwelling is departed. He proceeds with his complaints, depicting his life with a beautiful metaphor, for he compares it to a shephe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent
Or, my habitation…
Here we have Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is good for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. H…
13th Century
Catholic
1. In those days. In this part, the prophet describes some events resulting from the preceding history, namely, the sickness…
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