Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

A crane

Job 30:29
A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:
Psalm 102:4
Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.

I did mourn

Isaiah 59:11
We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo, - We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us!
Ezekiel 7:16
While they who escape of them shall escape and become on the mountains as the doves of the valleys, all of them cooing, - -each one in his punishment.
Nahum 2:7
And, Huzzab, hath been taken captive - hath been led up, - and, her handmaids, are making a moan like the sound of doves, as they taber upon their heart.

Mine eyes

Psalm 69:3
I am weary with mine outcry, Parched is my throat, - Mine eyes have become dim, through waiting for my God.
Psalm 119:82
Mine eyes have failed for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Lamentations 4:17
Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched - for a nation that will not save.

I am

Psalm 119:122
Be thou surety for thy servant for good, Let not insolent men oppress me.

General references

Matthew 5:4
Happy, they who mourn; for, they, shall be comforted: