Isaiah 38:13
“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.”
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.
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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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.
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.”
“Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.”
“For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.”
“My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.”
“For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.”