Isaiah 38:13

I waited patiently all during the night, but my pain was as though [MET] I was being torn apart by lions. It seemed that my life was finished.

Translation for Translators

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

12It is as if my life has been taken away like [SIM] a tent whose pegs have been pulled up by a shepherd and taken away. My time to live has been cut short, like a piece of cloth that a weaver cuts and rolls up after he has finished weaving a cloth.” Suddenly, it seemed that my life was ending.

14I was delirious, and I chirped like a swift or a swallow, and moaned like a dove. My eyes became tired looking up toward heaven for help. I cried out, Lord, help me, because I am distressed!’

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:36So the prophet said to him, “Because you refused to obey what Yahweh told you to do, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me.” And as soon as he left that prophet, a lion suddenly pounced on him and killed him.

Job 10:16And if I am proud, you hunt me like [SIM] a lion hunts for some animal to kill, and you act powerfully to injure me.

Psalms 39:10But now, please stop punishing me! If you do not do that, I am about to die because of the ways that you [SYN] have struck/afflicted me.

Psalms 51:8Allow/Cause me to be joyful [DOU] again; you have ◄crushed my spirit/completely discouraged me► [MTY]; but now let me rejoice again.

Lamentations 3:4He has caused my skin and my flesh to become old. He has broken my bones.

Hosea 5:14I will become like [SIM] a lion [DOU] to both nations; I will attack them and tear them to pieces. I will drag them away, and no one will be able to rescue them.

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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