Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chirp; 1 I did moan like a yonah; 1 mine eyes grew weak from looking heavenward; 1 Adonoi, I am oppressed; go surety for me. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 until boker, that, like an ari (lion), 1 so will He break all my atzmot; 1 from yom even to lailah wilt Thou make an end of me. 1

15What shall I say? 1 He hath both promised me, and Himself hath done it; 1 I shall walk quietly all my shanot 1 in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh. 1

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Cross References

Job 17:3Lay down an eravon (pledge) with Thee; 1 who is he that will put up security for me? 1

Psalms 69:3I sink in deep mire, 1 where there is no standing; 1 I am come into the depths of the mayim, 1 where the floods overflow me. 1

Psalms 119:82Mine eyes fail for Thy word saying, 1 Mosai (when) wilt Thou comfort me? 1

Psalms 123:1(Shir HaMa'alot [Song of Ascents]) 1 O Thou that dwellest in Shomayim. 1

Isaiah 59:11We all growl like dubim (bears), 1 and moan continually like yonim (doves); 1 we look for mishpat, but there is none; 1 for Yeshu'ah (Salvation), but it is far off from us. 1

Ezekiel 7:16But they that survive of them shall escape, and shall be on the harim like doves of the ge'ayot (valleys), all of them moaning, every one for his avon.

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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