Isaiah 38:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
  • Ps 119:122-123 : 122 Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me. 123 My eyes fail looking for your salvation, For your righteous word.
  • Job 30:29 : 29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
  • Nah 2:7 : 7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
  • Job 17:3 : 3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
  • Ps 102:4-7 : 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. 7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
  • Ps 119:82 : 82 My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
  • Ps 123:1-4 : 1 > To you I do lift up my eyes, You who sit in the heavens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; So our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, Until he has mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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    15What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

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    6I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

    13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

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    8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

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    28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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    6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

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    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

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    3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

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    15For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

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    9I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

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    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

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    9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

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    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

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    82My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"