12Mine 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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For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-22)We have here Hezekiah’s thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David , 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of…
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