Isaiah 38:14

Isaiah 38:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!

Context of Isaiah 38:14

12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me. 13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me. I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.” 15What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul. 16O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.

Isaiah 38:14 word by word

כְּס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה דַּלּ֤וּ עֵינַי֙ לַמָּר֔וֹם אֲדֹנָ֖י עָֽשְׁקָה־לִּ֥י עָרְבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

• I chirpצָפַףtsâphaph · to whisperH6850
• like a swallowסוּסsûs sûs · swallowH5483
• or craneעָגוּר‛âgûr · craneH5693
• or craneכֵּןkên · soH3651
• I moanהָגָהhâgâh · to mutterH1897
• like a doveיוֹנָהyônâh · doveH3123
• My eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• grow weakדָּלַלdâlal · to languishH1809
• upwardמָרוֹםmârôm · heightH4791
• O Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• I am oppressedעׇשְׁקָה‛oshqâh · oppressionH6234
• be my securityעָרַב‛ârab · to pledgeH6148

Cross-references for Isaiah 38:14

• Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
• Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
• Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
• Ezekiel 7:16The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
• Nahum 2:7It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
• Psalms 69:3I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
• Psalms 119:82My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”
• Psalms 123:1I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
• Lamentations 4:17All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
• Psalms 119:122Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.
• Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

Commentaries on Isaiah 38:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - כסיס kesis ; so read two MSS., Theodot., and Hieron. Mine eyes fail - For דלו dallu the Septuagint read כלו calu, . Compare Psalm 69:4; Psalm 119:82, Psalm 119:123; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 4:17, in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint. O Lord "O Lord" - For יהוה Jehovah, thirty MSS. and eight editions read אדני Adonai . Undertake for me "Contend for me" - עשקה ashekah, with ש shin, Jarchi: this sense of the word…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-22Verses 9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust committed to our charge, as the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-20Hezekiah’s poem includes both lament (Isaiah 38:9–14) and praise (38:15–20). The praise remains restrained until the final verse.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-209-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 38:14

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Crane
• Hezekiah
• Murmuring
• Oppression
• Psalms
• Swallow

In the dictionaries

• Celebrate
• Crane
• Hezekiah
• Poetry
• Reckon
• Swallow
• Undertake
• Chatter
• Chronicles, Books of
• Dove

Commentaries on Isaiah 38

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings