Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.'
New American Standard Bible
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My
O Lord, I am oppressed, be my
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
I moan like a dove.
My eyes grow weak looking upward.
Lord, I am oppressed; support me.
International Standard Version
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me!
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp;
I coo like a dove.
My eyes look wistfully upward;
O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side and be my security.
Bible in Basic English
I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
Darby Translation
Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed with looking upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Julia Smith Translation
As the twittering swallow so shall I chirp: I shall murmur as the dove: mine eyes languished for height: O Jehovah, oppression is to me; be surety for me.
King James 2000
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support!
Modern King James verseion
Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O Jehovah, I am pressed down; be surety for me.
NET Bible
Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me!
New Heart English Bible
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
The Emphasized Bible
As a twittering swallow, so, do I chatter, I coo as a dove, - Mine eyes languish through looking on high, O My Lord! distress is upon me - my Surety!
Webster
Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
World English Bible
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."
Youngs Literal Translation
As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.
Themes
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Swallows
Doves » Illustrative » Of mourners
hezekiah » King of judah » His psalm of thanksgiving
Murmuring » Instances of » hezekiah
Psalms » Of hezekiah, celebrating deliverance from death
Sickness » Saints » Mourn under, with prayer
Swallow » Chattering of, figurative of the mourning of the afflicted
Interlinear
Hagah
`ayin
Dalal
Marowm
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 38:14
Images Isaiah 38:14
Prayers for Isaiah 38:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hezekiah's Illness
13 I thought I would have lived unto the morrow, but he bruised my bones like a lion, and made an end of me in one day. 14 Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.' 15 What shall I say? The Lord hath made a promise to me. Yea, and he himself hath performed it. I shall therefore, as long as I live, remember bitterness of my life.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 59:11
We roar all like Bears, and mourn still like doves. We look for equity, but there is none; for health, but it is far from us.
Job 30:29
But now I am a companion of dragons, and a fellow of ostriches.
Psalm 69:3
I am weary of crying; my throat is dry. My sight faileth me, for waiting so long upon my God.
Psalm 119:122-123
Be thou surety for thy servant to do him good, that the proud do me no wrong.
Ezekiel 7:16
"And such as escape and flee from among them, shall be upon the hills, like as the doves in the field: every one shall be afraid, because of his own wickedness.
Nahum 2:7
The queen herself shall be led away captive, and her gentlewomen shall mourn as the doves, and groan within their hearts.
Job 17:3
O deliver me and set me by thee: who shall then be able to thrust my hands together?
Psalm 102:4-7
My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalm 119:82
Mine eyes long sore for thy word, saying, "O when wilt thou comfort me?"
Psalm 123:1-4
{A song of the stairs} Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Psalm 143:7
Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.
Lamentations 4:17
{Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.