Isaiah 38:14

A Conservative Version

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:11

We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Psalm 69:3

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

Nahum 2:7

And it is decreed. She is uncovered. She is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

Ezekiel 7:16

But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.

Job 30:29

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

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.

Psalm 143:7

Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail for thy word, while I say, When will thou comfort me?

Job 17:3

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

Hebrews 7:22

By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

Psalm 55:2

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water. Yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry], but none looks back.