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Isaiah 38:13

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

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.

Isaiah 38:13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 38:13

Theological / Devotional

I reckoned. Literally, “I composed myself,” “I quieted myself.” Compare Ps. 131:2, where the same Hebrew expression is translated “I... quieted myself.” Finding himself within the relentless grasp of an enemy — disease — before which he is powerless, Hezekiah faces the prospect of reconciling himself to what appears to be the inevitable. The entire verse is missing in the Dead Sea scroll 1QIs, but is found in 1QIs.

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