Isaiah 38:14

-15 As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for my eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow of my soul.

LXX2012 (US English)

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.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 69:3Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. 1

Psalms 123:1If it had not been that the Lord was among us, 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 kill 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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