Isaiah 38:13

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Summary

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.

As a lion

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As a lion

Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body.

Then he said to him, “Because you have not listened to the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” And as soon as he had departed from him a lion found him and killed him.

‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your power against me.

“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

“Remove Your plague from me;
Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.

“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

Make me to hear joy and gladness,

Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim
And like a young lion to the house of Judah.

I, even I, will tear to pieces and go away,

I will carry away, and there will be none to deliver.

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number

sleep.