Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

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In The King James Version

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

In Context

13I quieted [myself] until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.

15What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?

Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalms 119:82My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?

Psalms 123:1To thee do I lift up my eyes, O thou who sit in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Ezekiel 7:16But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →

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