Mine age is folden up together, and taken away from me, like a shepherd's cottage: my life is hewn off, like as a weaver cutteth off his web. While I was yet taking my rest, he hewed me off, and made an end of me in one day.'

Wherefore should I be then punished daily, and be chastened every morning?"

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."

They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon.

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.

And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.

The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with dishonour. Selah.

My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

He hath brought down my strength in my journey, and shortened my days.

Princes also sit and speak against me; but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes.

Moreover the daughter of Zion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like a watch house in time of war, like a besieged city.

It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more;

For as long as we are in this tabernacle, we sigh and are grieved: for we would not be unclothed: but would be clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Notwithstanding, I think it mete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

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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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Is removed

"O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;
The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with dishonour. Selah.
My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

As a

Moreover the daughter of Zion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like a watch house in time of war, like a besieged city.
It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more;

Have cut

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.
He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.
and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

He will cut

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.
My breath faileth, my days are shortened. I am hard at death's door.
And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.
Princes also sit and speak against me; but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes.
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