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Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I twitter; I did mourn as a dove; Mine eyes failed with looking upward; “O Lord, I am in distress; O, deliver 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 waited till morning, and like a lion Did he crush all my bones; “Between morning and night wilt thou make an end of me!”

15What shall I say? He promised it, and he hath done it; I will walk humbly all my life On account of the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Give a pledge, I pray thee; be thou a surety for me with thee; Who is he that will strike hands with me?

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

Psalms 119:82Mine eyes fail with looking for thy promise; When. say I, wilt thou comfort me?

Psalms 123:1“A song of the steps, or the goings up.” To thee do I lift up mine eyes, O Thou who dwellest in the heavens!

Isaiah 59:11We groan, all of us, like bears, And like doves we make a continued moan; We look for judgment, and it cometh not; For salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16And those of them that escape shall be upon the mountains like doves of the valleys, All of them mourning, 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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