Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Isaiah 38:12, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 73:14
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
- Hebrews 1:12
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.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1
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 heave…
- Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
- Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Psalms 119:23
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
- Job 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
- Job 7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed u…
- Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Psalms 102:23
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
- Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
More to meet God in Isaiah
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.