KJV 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.
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Isaiah 38:14
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
WEB World English Bible
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
ASV American Standard Version
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 38
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 cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I 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.
14 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.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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כְּס֤וּסH5483 · susswallowעָגוּר֙H5693 · a.gurcraneכֵּ֣ןH3651 · kenrightאֲצַפְצֵ֔ףH6850 · tsa.phaphto whisperאֶהְגֶּ֖הH1897 · ha.gahto mutterכַּיּוֹנָ֑הH3123 · yo.nahdoveדַּלּ֤וּH1809 · da.lalto languishעֵינַי֙H5869 · a.yineyeלַמָּר֔וֹםH4791 · ma.romheightאֲדֹנָ֖יH136 · a.do.naiLordעָֽשְׁקָה־H6234 · osh.qahoppressionלִּ֥יH9030 · nimeעָרְבֵֽנִי׃H6148 · a.ravto pledge
Cross-references
Isaiah 59:11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.Psalm 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.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.Psalm 123:1-4A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.Nahum 2:7And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead [her] as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.Psalm 119:122-123Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.Psalm 102:4-7My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.Psalm 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.Lamentations 4:17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].Psalm 119:82Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?Job 17:3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
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