◄ Isaiah 38:13 ►
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Good News Translation
All night I cried out with pain, As if a lion were breaking my bones. I thought that God was ending my life.

New Revised Standard Version
I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.

Contemporary English Version
Until morning came, I thought you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me.

New American Bible
I cry out even until the dawn. Like a lion he breaks all my bones; from morning to night you make an end of me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

as a lion

1 Kings 13:24-26 And when he was gone, a lion found him in the way, and killed him, and his body was cast in the way: and the ass stood by him, and the lion stood by the dead body. . . .

1 Kings 20:36 Then he said to him: Because thou wouldst not hearken to the word of the Lord, behold thou shalt depart from me, and a lion shall slay thee. And when he was gone a little from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

Job 10:16,17 And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully. . . .

Job 16:12-14 I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark. . . .

Psalm 39:10 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

Psalm 50:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Psalm 51:8 To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Daniel 6:24 And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

Hosea 5:14 For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32 Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep. . . .

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
…12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd's tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. 13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.14I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.…
Cross References
Job 10:16
And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Psalm 7:2
Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

Psalm 51:8
To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Lamentations 3:4
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Daniel 6:24
And by the king's commandment, those men were brought that had accused Daniel: and they were cast into the lions' den, they and their children, and their wives: and they did not reach the bottom of the den, before the lions caught them, and broke all their bones in pieces.

Isaiah 38:12
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