Tafsiran Yesaya 38:12: Rashi & Ibn Ezra

My generation was removed and exiled from me The people of my generation were removed from me. was removed (נִסַּע) synonymous with נִסְּחוּ. Comp. (supra 33:20) “whose pegs shall never be moved (יִסַּע).”

דורי My dwelling.¹²A. V., Mine age. Comp. מדור from dwelling (Ps. 39:5); the word is frequent in Chaldee;¹³Comp. דירה dwelling, דיורין occupants of a house (Talm. Bab. Sukka ix.) דור generation (13:20) is perhaps to be derived from the same root;¹⁴דור A generation, that is, the average time a man dwells upon the earth. comp. for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner (Ps. 39:13).

like a shepherd’s tent Like the tent of one who tends animals, which he moves from here and sets up in another pasture when this pasture is depleted.

I severed (קִפַּדְתִּי) I severed my life quickly, like a weaver who hastens to weave. All this I thought. Jonathan renders: Like a stream with banks, like a stream that flows between high banks, which does not spread out, and consequently, its water flows swiftly. And I say that it is a swift stream named Oreg, and this is what Job (7:6) said, “My days are lighter than Areg,” also (ibid. 9:26), “They passed with the ships of Ebeh.”

from glory He shall deprive me (מִדַּלֶּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי). Jonathan renders: From the glory of my kingdom I am exiled. I thought that now He would deprive me of all my glory. The word דַלָּה is an expression of height. Comp. (Song 7:5) “And the braid (וְדַלַּת) of your head.”

from day and night You shall finish me (lit., from day to night.) Comp. (Num. 5:3) “Both male and female,” (lit., from male to female.) That is to say, from days and nights you shall finish me, and so did Jonathan render: My days and my nights are over.