Isaiah 38:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ 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!

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ 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.

Isaiah 38:14 Cross References

Job 17:3

“Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will give surety for me?

Job 30:29

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail with watching for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 55:2

Attend to me and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Isaiah 59:11

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

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; we were watching eagerly for a nation that could not save.

Ezekiel 7:16

If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity.

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!”— but no one turns back.

Hebrews 7:22

accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.