Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

13The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it breaketh all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou 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 for the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?

Psalms 69:3(69-4) I am weary of my crying; my throat is dried; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalms 119:82Mine eyes fail for Thy word, saying: 'When wilt Thou comfort me?'

Psalms 123:1A Song of Ascents. Unto Thee I lift up mine eyes, O Thou that art enthroned in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for right, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Ezekiel 7:16But they that shall at all escape of them, shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every 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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