Isaiah 38:14

As a crane — a swallow — so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.

Young's Literal Translation

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 have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

15— What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

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Cross References

Job 17:3Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

Psalms 69:3I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Psalms 119:82Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, 'When doth it comfort me?'

Psalms 123:1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens.

Isaiah 59:11We make a noise as bears — all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation — it hath been far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising — each 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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