Isaiah 38:13

I quieted [myself] until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

In Context

12My 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 thou will make an end of me.

14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:36Then said he to him, Because thou have not obeyed the voice of LORD, behold, as soon as thou are departed from me, a lion shall kill thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

Job 10:16And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

Psalms 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which thou have broken may rejoice.

Lamentations 3:4He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Hosea 5:14For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 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… Read the whole commentary →

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