Isaiah 38:14
As a twittering swallow, so, do I chatter, I coo as a dove,—Mine eyes languish through looking on high, O My Lord! distress is upon me—my Surety!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Job 17:3Appoint it, I pray thee—be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
Psalms 69:3I am weary with mine outcry, Parched is my throat,—Mine eyes have become dim, through waiting for my God.
Psalms 119:82Mine eyes have failed for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms 123:1Unto thee, have I lifted up mine eyes, O thou who art enthroned in the heavens.
Isaiah 59:11We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo,—We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us!
Ezekiel 7:16While they who escape of them shall escape and become on the mountains as the doves of the valleys, all of them cooing,—each one in his punishment.
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 →