Isaiah 38:14

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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.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

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

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 for his iniquity.

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

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

My eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the pit.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.