Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

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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 reckoned till morning, that , as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

15What shall I say? he hath both spoken to me, and himself hath done it : I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Psalms 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalms 119:82My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalms 123:1A Song of degrees. To thee I raise my eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for 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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