Isaiah 38:14

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

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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 patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

Psalms 119:82My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalms 123:1I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Ezekiel 7:16But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in 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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