Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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 Living Translation 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!” English Standard Version 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! Berean Standard Bible 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.” King James Bible 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 King James Version 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 American Standard Bible “Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. NASB 1995 “Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. NASB 1977 “Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. Legacy Standard Bible Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. Amplified Bible “Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp; I coo like a dove. My eyes look wistfully upward; O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security. Christian Standard Bible 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. Holman Christian Standard Bible 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. American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Like a swallow that chirps, I chirped, and like a dove I mourned. I have lifted my eyes on high. LORD JEHOVAH, save me and cheer me up! Brenton Septuagint Translation 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, Contemporary English Version I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, LORD. I am in terrible trouble. Please come and help me. Douay-Rheims Bible 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. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation I chirped like swallows and cranes. I cooed like doves. My eyes were tired from looking up to heaven. I've suffered miserably, O Lord! Please help me! Good News Translation My voice was thin and weak, And I moaned like a dove. My eyes grew tired from looking to heaven. LORD, rescue me from all this trouble. International Standard Version Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me! JPS Tanakh 1917 Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; Mine eyes fail with looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety. Literal Standard Version As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, | I mourn as a dove, | My eyes have been drawn up on high, | O YHWH, oppression [is] on me, be my guarantor. Majority Standard Bible 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.” New American Bible Like a swallow I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weary looking heavenward: Lord, I am overwhelmed; go security for me! NET Bible Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me! New Revised Standard Version Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security! New Heart English Bible I chip like a swallow or a thrush. I moan like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward.LORD, I am oppressed. Be my security." Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible 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.” Young's Literal Translation 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Hezekiah's Song of Thanksgiving…13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me. 14I 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.… Cross References Hebrews 7:22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. Job 17:3 Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor? Job 30:29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches. Psalm 55:2 Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught Psalm 69:3 I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. Psalm 102:6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. Psalm 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, "When will You comfort me?" Treasury of Scripture 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. a crane Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Psalm 102:4-7 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread… I did mourn Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. Nahum 2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. mine eyes Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. Psalm 119:82,123 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? … Psalm 123:1-4 A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens… I am Psalm 119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. undertake for me. Jump to Previous Aid Bird Cause Chatter Clamor Crane Cried Cries Crushed Desire Dove Drawn Eyes Fail Failed Grew Grief Heavens Heights Moan Moaned Mourn Mourned Mourning Oppressed Security Sounds Surety Swallow Swift Undertake Upward Weak Weaken WearyJump to Next Aid Bird Cause Chatter Clamor Crane Cried Cries Crushed Desire Dove Drawn Eyes Fail Failed Grew Grief Heavens Heights Moan Moaned Mourn Mourned Mourning Oppressed Security Sounds Surety Swallow Swift Undertake Upward Weak Weaken WearyIsaiah 38 1. Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened8. The sun goes ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise 9. His song of thanksgiving. (14) Like a crane . . .--The three birds--strictly, the "swift," the "crane," the "dove"--each with its special note of lamentation, represent, as it were, the cries of pain and the low suppressed wail of the sufferer. The three appear again together in Jeremiah 8:7. Undertake for me--i.e., as in Genesis 43:9; Genesis 44:32; Job 17:3, Be surety for me. The idea is that of Death, who, yet in another sense, is but the minister of Jehovah, as being the creditor pressing for immediate payment. The words involve (as Cheyne points out) something like an appeal to the judge, who is also the accuser, to be bail for the accused. Verse 14. - Like a crane or a swallow. The sus, here translated "crane," is probably "the swift," which has a loud, shrill note. The, agur is, perhaps, "the crane;" but this is very uncertain. The two words occur as the names of birds only here and in Jeremiah 8:7. So did I chatter; rather, so did I scream (Cheyne). I did mourn; rather, I did moan. Mine eyes fail with looking upward; rather, mine eyes are weak to look upward; i.e. I have scarcely the courage or the strength to look to Jehovah; yet still I do look to him falteringly, and make my appeal: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me (comp. Job 17:3); literally, be Surety for me. "The image," as Mr. Cheyne says, "is that of a debtor, who is being dragged to prison" at the suit of an exacting creditor, and for whom there is but one hope of relief; viz. if he can obtain a sufficient surety. Hezekiah calls on God to be the Surety; but God is the Creditor! Still, there is an appeal from God's justice to God's mercy - from Jehovah who punishes to Jehovah who forgives sin; and this appeal Hezekiah seems to intend to make when he beseeches God to "undertake for him."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew I chirpאֲצַפְצֵ֔ף (’ă·ṣap̄·ṣêp̄) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6850: To chirp, peep like a swallow כְּס֤וּס (kə·sūs) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird) or crane; עָגוּר֙ (‘ā·ḡūr) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5693: (a kind of bird) perhaps a crane I moan אֶהְגֶּ֖ה (’eh·geh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 1897: To moan, growl, utter, speak, muse like a dove. כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה (kay·yō·w·nāh) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 3123: A dove My eyes עֵינַי֙ (‘ê·nay) Noun - cdc | first person common singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain grow weak דַּלּ֤וּ (dal·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 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 4791: Altitude O Lord, אֲדֹנָ֖י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 136: The Lord I am oppressed; עָֽשְׁקָה־ (‘ā·šə·qāh-) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6234: Oppression, distress be my security. עָרְבֵֽנִי׃ (‘ā·rə·ḇê·nî) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's 6148: To braid, intermix, technically, to traffic, give to be security Links Isaiah 38:14 NIVIsaiah 38:14 NLT Isaiah 38:14 ESV Isaiah 38:14 NASB Isaiah 38:14 KJV Isaiah 38:14 BibleApps.com Isaiah 38:14 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 38:14 Chinese Bible Isaiah 38:14 French Bible Isaiah 38:14 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 38:14 I chattered like a swallow (Isa Isi Is) |
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