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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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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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.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
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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.
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6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! [for then] would I fly away, and be at rest.
- Isa 38:12-132 verses75%
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.
- Ps 38:8-103 verses74%
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
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6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
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3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?
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15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
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9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Ps 31:9-102 verses72%
9 ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
- Lam 1:20-223 verses72%
20 Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.
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12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
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2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
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13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.
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9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
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1 ¶ To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities be overpast.
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3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
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1 ¶ Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
- Ps 22:13-142 verses71%
13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
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16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted.
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24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
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8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
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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.
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16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
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14 I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.
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52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
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19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
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4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
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7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
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7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
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8 But mine eyes [are] unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
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82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?