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 is plucked 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. By nightfall you make an end of me. 13I thought until the morning: He will break all my bones like a lion. By nightfall you make an end of me. I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; support me. 15What can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk along slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 16Lord, by such things people live, and in every one of them my spirit finds life; you have restored me to health and 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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Like a craneסוּסsûs sûs · swallowH5483
• a swallowעָגוּר‛âgûr · craneH5693
• so did I chatterצָפַףtsâphaph · to whisperH6850
• I did mournהָגָהhâgâh · to mutterH1897
• as a doveיוֹנָהyônâh · doveH3123
• mine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• failדָּלַלdâlal · to languishH1809
• upwardמָרוֹםmârôm · heightH4791
• O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• I am oppressedעׇשְׁקָה‛oshqâh · oppressionH6234
• undertakeעָרַב‛ârab · to pledgeH6148

Cross-references for Isaiah 38:14

• Job 30:29I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
• Psalms 102:4My heart is suffering, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food.
• Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
• Ezekiel 7:16The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains. Like doves of the valley, all of them will moan, each over his own iniquity.
• Nahum 2:7Beauty is stripped; she is carried away; her ladies-in-waiting moan like the sound of doves and beat 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 grow weary looking for what you have promised; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
• Psalms 123:1I lift 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 would not save us.
• Psalms 119:122Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.
• Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, Lord; my spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, or I will be like those going down 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

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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