Isaiah 38:13

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11 I said,
“I shall not see¹ Yah,
The Lord ^ain the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more¹ among the inhabitants of the world.

12 ^aMy life span is gone,
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have cut off my life like a weaver.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.

13 I have considered until morning—
Like a lion,
So He breaks all my bones;
From day until night You make an end of me.

14 Like a crane o¹r a swallow, so I chattered;
^aI mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed;
¹Undertake for me!

15 “What shall I say?
¹He has both spoken to me,
And He Himself has done it.
I shall walk carefully all my years
^aIn the bitterness of my soul.

16 O Lord, by these things men live;
And in all these things is the life of my spirit;
So You will restore me and make me live.

17 Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

18 For ^aSheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

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Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 38:13

The last line of the foregoing verse miyom AD layelah tashlimeni , "In the course of the day thou wilt finish my web; "or, as the common version has it, "From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me, "is not repeated at the end of this verse in the Syriac version; and a MS. omits it. It seems to have been inserted a second time in the Hebrew text by mistake.

I reckoned till morning, etc. "I roared until the morning like the lion" - For shivvithi , the Chaldee has nihameith : he read shaagti , the proper term for the roaring of a lion; often applied to the deep groaning of men in sickness. See Psalm 22, Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:9; Job 3:24. The Masoretes divide the sentence, as I have done; taking caari , like a lion, into the first member; and so likewise the Septuagint.

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