Isaiah 38:14
Good News Translation
My voice was thin and weak, And I moaned like a dove. My eyes grew tired from looking to heaven. LORD, rescue me from all this trouble.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Contemporary English Version
I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, LORD. I am in terrible trouble. Please come and help me.

New American Bible
Like a swallow I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weary looking heavenward: Lord, I am overwhelmed; go security for me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

a crane

Job 30:29 I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

Psalm 102:4-7 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. . . .

I did mourn

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

Nahum 2:7 And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

mine eyes

Psalm 69:3 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 119:82,123 My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me? . . .

Psalm 123:1-4 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. . . .

Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

I am

Psalm 119:122 Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

undertake for me.

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. 14I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.15What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.…
Cross References
Hebrews 7:22
By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Job 17:3
Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

Job 30:29
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

Psalm 55:2
Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

Psalm 69:3
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 102:6
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

Psalm 119:82
My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalm 119:122
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Psalm 119:123
My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

Isaiah 59:11
We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16
And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

Nahum 2:7
And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Isaiah 38:13
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