Isaiah 38:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourne as a doue: mine eies were lift vp on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed me, comfort me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.
  • Ps 119:122-123 : 122 Answere for thy seruant in that, which is good, and let not the proude oppresse me. 123 Mine eyes haue failed in waiting for thy saluation, and for thy iust promes.
  • Job 30:29 : 29 I am a brother to the dragons, & a companion to the ostriches.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.
  • Nah 2:7 : 7 And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Lay downe nowe and put me in suretie for thee: who is hee, that will touch mine hand?
  • Ps 102:4-7 : 4 Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread. 5 For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne. 6 I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts. 7 I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 Mine eyes faile for thy promes, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?
  • Ps 123:1-4 : 1 A song of degrees. I lift vp mine eyes to thee, that dwellest in the heauens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a mayden vnto the hand of her mistres: so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God vntil he haue mercie vpon vs. 3 Haue mercie vpon vs, O Lorde, haue mercie vpon vs: for we haue suffered too much contempt. 4 Our soule is filled too full of ye mocking of the wealthy, & of the despitefulnes of the proude.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Heare me speedily, O Lorde, for my spirit fayleth: hide not thy face from me, els I shall be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Whiles we waited for our vaine helpe, our eyes failed: for in our waiting we looked for a nation that could not saue vs.

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  • Ps 102:6-8
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    77%

    6 I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.

    7 I watch and am as a sparrowe alone vpon the house top.

    8 Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.

  • 15 What shall I say? for he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walke weakely all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.

  • 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: then would I flie away and rest.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12 Mine habitation is departed, and is remoued from me, like a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut me off from the height: from day to night, thou wilt make an ende of me.

    13 I rekoned to the morning: but he brake all my bones, like a lion: from day to night wilt thou make an ende of me.

  • Ps 38:8-10
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    8 I am weakened and sore broken: I roare for the very griefe of mine heart.

    9 Lorde, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.

    10 Mine heart panteth: my strength faileth me, and the light of mine eyes, euen they are not mine owne.

  • 28 I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

  • 6 I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.

  • 18 I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

  • 3 I am wearie of crying: my throte is drie: mine eyes faile, whiles I waite for my God.

  • 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. In the Lorde put I my trust: howe say yee then to my soule, Flee to your mountaine as a birde?

  • 15 For on thee, O Lord, do I waite: thou wilt heare me, my Lord, my God.

  • 9 I wil say vnto God, which is my rocke, Why hast thou forgotten mee? why goe I mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?

  • 4 And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    72%

    9 Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.

    10 For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

  • 17 Surely I am ready to halte, and my sorow is euer before me.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20 Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

    21 They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

    22 Let al their wickednes come before thee: do vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me, for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, & mine heart is heauy.

  • 12 For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.

  • 2 Hearken vnto me, & answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

    14 The yoke of my transgressions is bounde vpon his hand: they are wrapped, and come vp vpon my necke: hee hath made my strength to fall: the Lord hath deliuered me into their hands, neither am I able to rise vp.

  • 9 Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lorde, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.

  • 1 To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of Dauid on Michtam. When he fled from Saul in the caue. Haue mercie vpon me, O God, haue mercie vpon me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and in the shadowe of thy wings wil I trust, till these afflictions ouerpasse.

  • 3 Yea, the sparrowe hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for her, where she may lay her yong: euen by thine altars, O Lord of hostes, my King and my God.

  • 1 A Psalme of Dauid, to giue instruction, and a prayer, when he was in the caue. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce: with my voyce I prayed vnto the Lord.

  • Ps 22:13-14
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    13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

    14 I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.

  • 16 Turne thy face vnto mee, and haue mercie vpon me: for I am desolate and poore.

  • 24 For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

  • 12 Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

  • 8 Then cried I vnto thee, O Lord, and praied to my Lord.

  • 11 We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

  • 16 For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • 14 I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.

  • 52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.

  • 16 My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

  • 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.

  • 6 Hearken vnto my crye, for I am brought very lowe: deliuer me from my persecuters, for they are too strong for me.

  • 4 Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake.

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    7 Mine eye is dimmed for despight, and sunke in because of all mine enemies.

  • 7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.

  • 8 But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.

  • 82 Mine eyes faile for thy promes, saying, when wilt thou comfort me?