Isaiah 38:14

I scream like a swift or a songbird, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow dim as I look heavenwards. I'm being attacked, Lord, please come and support me!

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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 lie there patiently until the morning, but I feel like there's a lion breaking every bone in my body. Day and night you bring me to an end.

15Yet what can I say? He told me what was going to happen, and he himself did it. I will walk quietly for the rest of my life because of the painful experience I went through.

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Cross References

Job 17:3God, you need to put down a pledge for me with yourself, for who else will be my guarantor?

Psalms 69:3I'm so tired of screaming out for help my throat is totally raw. My eyes are worn out looking for my God to help me.

Psalms 119:82I strain my eyes looking for you to keep your promises, asking “When will you comfort me?”

Psalms 123:1I look up to you, the one who rules from heaven.

Isaiah 59:11All of us growl like bears and coo like doves as we wait for justice to be done, but it never happens; we wait for salvation, but never receive it.

Ezekiel 7:16Those who do survive will escape and go to live in the mountains. They will sigh like the doves of the valley, each person thinking about their own sins.

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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