Isaiah 38:13

I waited until boker, that, like an ari (lion), 1 so will He break all my atzmot; 1 from yom even to lailah wilt Thou make an end of me. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

12Mine dwelling is pulled up, 1 and is sent into the Golus from me like ohel ro'i; 1 As an oreg (weaver) I rolled up my life; 1 He would have cut me loose from the roll; 1 from yom even to lailah wilt Thou make an end of me. 1

14Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chirp; 1 I did moan like a yonah; 1 mine eyes grew weak from looking heavenward; 1 Adonoi, I am oppressed; go surety for me. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:36Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the kol Hashem, behold, thou, as soon as thou art departed from me, an aryeh shall kill thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, an aryeh found him, and killed him.

Job 10:16For if my head is held high, Thou stalkest me like a fierce lion, 1 and ever Thou displayest Thy awesome power against me. 1

Psalms 39:10I was silent, I opened not my mouth; 1 because Atah (Thou) did it. 1

Psalms 51:8Surely Thou desirest emes in the inward parts; 1 and in the inmost place Thou shalt make me to know chochmah. 1

Lamentations 3:4My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; 1 He hath broken my atzmot. 1

Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephrayim like a lion, 1 and as a great lion to the Bais Yehudah; 1 I, even I, will tear and go away; 1 I will carry off, and there will be no one rescuing. 1

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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