Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Darby Translation

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 kept still until the morning; as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.

15What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Lay down now [a pledge], be thou surety for me with thyself: who is he that striketh hands with me?

Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalms 119:82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalms 123:1{A Song of degrees.} Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16And they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one for 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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