Jesaja 38:13

13 Ich beschwichtigte meine Seele bis zum Morgen... dem Löwen gleich, also zerbrach er alle meine Gebeine. Vom Tage bis zur Nacht wirst du ein Ende mit mir machen!

Jesaja 38:13 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 38:13

I reckoned till morning
Or, "I set my time till the morning ^F13"; he fixed and settled it in his mind that he could live no longer than to the morning, if he lived so long; he thought he should have died before the night came on, and, now it was come, the utmost he could propose to himself was to live till morning; that was the longest time he could reckon of. According to the accents, it should be rendered, "I reckoned till morning as a lion"; or "I am like until the morning as a lion"; or, "I likened until the morning (God) as a lion"; I compared him to one; which agrees with what follows. The Targum is,

``I roared until morning, as a lion roars;''

through the force of the disease, and the pain he was in: or rather,

``I laid my bones together until the morning as a lion; "so indeed as a lion God" hath broken all my bones ^F14:''

so will he break all my bones;
or, "it will break"; that is, the sickness, as Kimchi and Jarchi; it lay in his bones, and so violent was the pain, that he thought all his bones were breaking in pieces; such is the case in burning fevers, as Jerom observes; so Kimchi interprets it of a burning fever, which is like a fire in the bones. Some understand this of God himself, to which our version directs, who may be said to do this by the disease: compare with this ( Job 16:14 ) and to this sense the following clause inclines: from day even tonight wilt thou make an end of me;
he lived till morning, which was more than he expected, and was the longest time he could set himself; and now be reckoned that before night it would be all over with him as to this world. This was the second day of his illness; and the third day he recovered, and went to the temple with his song of praise.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (rqb de ytywv) "statui, [vel] posui usque ad mane", Pagninus, Montanus; "constitui [rursum terminum] usque mane", Vatablus.
F14 Reinbeck de Accent Heb. p. 411.

Jesaja 38:13 In-Context

11 Ich sprach: Ich werde Jehova nicht sehen, Jehova im Lande der Lebendigen; ich werde Menschen nicht mehr erblicken bei den Bewohnern des Totenreiches.

12 Meine Wohnung ist abgebrochen und ward von mir weggeführt wie ein Hirtenzelt. Ich habe, dem Weber gleich, mein Leben aufgerollt: vom Trumme schnitt er mich los. Vom Tage bis zur Nacht wirst du ein Ende mit mir machen!

13 Ich beschwichtigte meine Seele bis zum Morgen... dem Löwen gleich, also zerbrach er alle meine Gebeine. Vom Tage bis zur Nacht wirst du ein Ende mit mir machen!

14 Wie eine Schwalbe, wie ein Kranich, so klagte ich; ich girrte wie die Taube. Schmachtend blickten meine Augen zur Höhe: O Herr, mir ist bange! Tritt als Bürge für mich ein!

15 Was soll ich sagen? Daß er es mir zugesagt und es auch ausgeführt hat. Ich will sachte wallen alle meine Jahre wegen der Betrübnis meiner Seele.