Isaiah 38:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ 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.

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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

Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?

Job 30:29

I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

Psalm 119:82

Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O LORD; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me; Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 55:2

Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan;

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgement, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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 in his iniquity.

Nahum 2:7

And Huzzab is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids mourn as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away; Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

Hebrews 7:22

by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.