Isaiah 38:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Ps 119:122-123 : 122 Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride. 123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
  • Job 30:29 : 29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
  • Nah 2:7 : 7 The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.
  • Ps 102:4-7 : 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone. 6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand. 7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
  • Ps 123:1-4 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens. 2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us. 4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

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