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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 38:13 - 38:13
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I reckoned ... that - rather, I composed (my mind, during the night, expecting relief in the “morning,” so Job 7:4): for (“that” is not, as in the English Version, to be supplied) as a lion He was breaking all my bones [Vitringa] (Job 10:16; Lam 3:10, Lam 3:11). The Hebrew, in Psa 131:2, is rendered, “I quieted.” Or else, “I made myself like a lion (namely, in roaring, through pain), He was so breaking my bones!” Poets often compare great groaning to a lion’s roaring, so, Isa 38:14, he compares his groans to the sounds of other animals (Psa 22:1) [Maurer].