Isaiah 38:14
I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
Cross References
Job 17:3Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
Psalms 69:3\69:2\My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
Psalms 119:82My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Psalms 123:1A Song of the going up. To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
Isaiah 59:11We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Ezekiel 7:16And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
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 →