Isaiah 38:14

As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

13In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

15and removed the sorrow of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Who is this? let him join hands with me. 1

Psalms 69:3Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: 1 Let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil. 1

Psalms 123:1A Song of Degrees. 1 If it had not been that the Lord was among us, 1 Let Israel now say; 1

Isaiah 59:11They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will slay all the rest, every one for his iniquities.

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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