Isaiah 38:14
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I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

a crane

Job 30:29 I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

Psalm 102:4-7 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. . . .

I did mourn

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

Nahum 2:7 And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

mine eyes

Psalm 69:3 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 119:82,123 My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me? . . .

Psalm 123:1-4 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. . . .

Lamentations 4:17 Ain. While we were yet standing, our eyes failed, expecting help for us in vain, when we looked attentively towards a nation that was not able to save.

I am

Psalm 119:122 Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

undertake for me.

Context
Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving
13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. 14I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.15What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.…
Cross References
Hebrews 7:22
By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Job 17:3
Deliver me, O Lord, and set me beside thee, and let any man's hand fight against me.

Job 30:29
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

Psalm 55:2
Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,

Psalm 69:3
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 102:6
I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

Psalm 119:82
My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalm 119:122
Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Psalm 119:123
My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

Isaiah 59:11
We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16
And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

Nahum 2:7
And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Lexicon
I chirp
אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף (’ă·ṣap̄·ṣêp̄)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6850: To chirp, peep

like a swallow
כְּס֤וּס (kə·sūs)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird)

or crane;
עָגוּר֙ (‘ā·ḡūr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5693: (a kind of bird) perhaps a crane

I moan
אֶהְגֶּ֖ה (’eh·geh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1897: To moan, growl, utter, speak, muse

like a dove.
כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה (kay·yō·w·nāh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3123: A dove

My eyes
עֵינַי֙ (‘ê·nay)
Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

grow weak
דַּלּ֤וּ (dal·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1809: To slacken, be feeble, to be oppressed

[as I look] upward.
לַמָּר֔וֹם (lam·mā·rō·wm)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4791: Altitude

O Lord,
אֲדֹנָ֖י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 136: The Lord

I am oppressed;
עָֽשְׁקָה־ (‘ā·šə·qāh-)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6234: Oppression, distress

be my security.
עָרְבֵֽנִי׃ (‘ā·rə·ḇê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security


Additional Translations
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.Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow of my soul.

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward; O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."

As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.
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