Isaiah 38:13

I cried out + 38:13 The Hebrew could be read: I cried out or I calmed myself . until the morning; 1 like a lion he breaks all my bones. 1 Between day and night you are ending my life. 1

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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 is removed and carried away from me like a shepherd's tent; 1 I have rolled up my life like a weaver; you are cutting me off from the loom; 1 between day and night you are ending my life. 1

14Like a swallow I chirp; I coo like a dove; 1 my eyes grow tired with looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; help me. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:36Then the prophet said to his fellow prophet, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, as soon as you leave me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as that man had left him, a lion came upon him and killed him.

Job 10:16If my head were lifted up, 1 you would stalk me like a lion; 1 and again you would show yourself with marvellous acts of power against me. 1

Psalms 39:10Stop wounding me; 1 I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand. 1

Psalms 51:8Make me hear joy and gladness 1 so that the bones that you have broken may rejoice. 1

Lamentations 3:4He made my flesh and my skin waste away; he broke my bones. 1

Hosea 5:14So I will be like a lion to Ephraim, 1 and like a young lion to the house of Judah. 1 I, even I, will tear and go away; 1 I will carry them off, 1 and there will be no one to rescue them. 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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