Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourne as a doue: mine eies were lift vp on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed me, comfort me.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 rekoned to the morning: but he brake all my bones, like a lion: from day to night wilt thou make an ende of me.

15What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?

Psalms 69:3I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.

Psalms 119:82Mine eyes faile for thy promise, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?

Psalms 123:1A song of degrees. I lift vp mine eyes to thee, that dwellest in the heauens.

Isaiah 59:11We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

Ezekiel 7:16But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

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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