Isaiah 38:14

As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, || I mourn as a dove, || My eyes have been drawn up on high, || O YHWH, oppression [is] on me, be my guarantor.

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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 have set [Him] as a lion until morning, || So He breaks all my bones, || From day to night You end me.

15What do I say? Seeing He spoke to me, || And He Himself has worked, || I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Now place my pledge with You; Who is he that strikes hand with me?

Psalms 69:3I have been wearied with my calling, || My throat has been burned, || My eyes have been consumed, waiting for my God.

Psalms 119:82My eyes have been consumed for Your word, || Saying, “When does it comfort me?”

Psalms 123:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. I have lifted up my eyes to You, || O dweller in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We make a noise as bears—all of us, || And we coo severely as doves; We wait for judgment, and there is none, || For salvation—it has been far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16And their fugitives have escaped away, || And they have been on the mountains || As doves of the valleys, || All of them making a noise—each 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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