Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow I chirp; I coo like a dove; 1 my eyes grow tired with looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; help me. 1

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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 cried out + 38:13 The Hebrew could be read: I cried out or I calmed myself . until the morning; 1 like a lion he breaks all my bones. 1 Between day and night you are ending my life. 1

15What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and has done it; 1 I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. 1

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Cross References

Job 17:3Give now a pledge, be a guarantee for me with yourself; 1 who else is there who will help me? 1

Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dry; 1 my eyes fail while I wait for my God. 1

Psalms 119:82My eyes long to see your promise; 1 when will you comfort me? 1

Psalms 123:1To you I lift up my eyes, 1 you who are enthroned in the heavens. 1

Isaiah 59:11We growl like bears and moan like doves; 1 we wait for justice, but there is none; for rescue, but it is far from us. 1

Ezekiel 7:16But some survivors will escape from among them, and they will go to the mountains. 1 Like doves of the valleys, all of them will moan—each man for his iniquity. 1

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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