Isaiah 38:13

I waited patiently until morning.He breaks all my bones like a lion.From day even to night you will make an end of me.

New Heart English 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

12My dwelling is removed,and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.

14I chattered like a swallow or a crane.I moaned like a dove.My eyes weaken looking upward.Lord, I am oppressed.Be my security."

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Cross References

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

Job 10:16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Psalms 39:10Remove your scourge away from me.I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness,That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

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

Hosea 5:14For I will be to Ephraim like a lion,and like a young lion to the house of Judah.I myself will tear in pieces and go away.I will carry off, and there will be no one 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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