Isaiah 38:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We 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.
  • Ps 119:122-123 : 122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. 123 ¶ Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
  • Job 30:29 : 29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 ¶ But 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.
  • Nah 2:7 : 7 And 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.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
  • Ps 102:4-7 : 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
  • Ps 123:1-4 : 1 ¶ A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 ¶ Hear 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.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 As 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].

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