Isaiah 38:13

In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off the thread.

14-15 As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for my eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 10:16For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;

Psalms 39:10I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation. 1

Psalms 51:8But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore. 1

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

Hosea 5:14Therefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, 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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