Isaiah 38:10

"I said, In the noontide of my days, I shall go into the gates of Sheol;

I am deprived of the residue of my years.

I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living:

I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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 wilt thou make an end of me."

This is the first of four stanzas that are thought to be discernible in this little psalm. "In the first two, the king is looking forward to death, and the thought is mournful; but in the last two he has received the promise of recovery, and he pours out his thanksgiving."[14] It is of interest that the metaphors used here, namely, that of the removal of a shepherd's tent, and that of being cut out of the loom and folded up, both carry the thought that death is not the end of everything. "The idea here is that his dwelling would be transferred from one place to another. He would continue to exist, but in another place, just as the shepherd would remove his tent from one place to another, but still live in it."[15]