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!”
• 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!
• New Living Translation (NLT)Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”

Context of Isaiah 38:14

12My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end; 13I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. 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! 15What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make 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 am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
• Psalms 102:4My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
• Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
• Ezekiel 7:16And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
• Nahum 2:7its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
• Psalms 69:3I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
• Psalms 119:82My eyes long for your promise; I ask, "When will you comfort me?"
• Psalms 123:1To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
• Lamentations 4:17Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
• Psalms 119:122Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
• Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go 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