Isaiah 38:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upwards. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Like a twittering swallow or a crane, so do I chirp and chatter; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary and dim with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; take my side and be my security [as of a debtor being sent to prison].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Like a swallow I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes have grown weary looking to heaven. Lord, I’m overwhelmed; support me!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ I will cry out, like a young swallow. I will meditate, like a dove. My eyes have been weakened by gazing upward. O Lord, I suffer violence! Answer in my favor.

Isaiah 38:14 Cross References

Job 17:3

Accept my pledge! Put up security for me. Who else will be my sponsor?

Job 30:29

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 4:17

All 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.

Ezekiel 7:16

The 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 2:7

Beauty  is stripped; she is carried away; her ladies-in-waiting moan like the sound of doves and beat their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her first days, but they are fleeing. ‘Stop! Stop! ’ they cry, but no one turns back.

Hebrews 7:22

Because of this oath, Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.