Isaiah 38:14 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“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.”

Isaiah 38:14 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Isaiah 38:14 in 6 Bible Translations

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Isaiah 38:14 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“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.””

Isaiah 38:14 — World English Bible

Isaiah 38:14 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Like a swallowora 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. ”

Isaiah 38:14 — American Standard Version

Isaiah 38:14 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“As a crane--a swallow--so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression <FI>is<Fi> on me, be my surety.”

Isaiah 38:14 — Young's Literal Translation

Isaiah 38:14 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“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. ”

Isaiah 38:14 — Darby Translation

Isaiah 38:14 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourne as a doue: mine eies were lift vp on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed me, comfort me.”

Isaiah 38:14 — Geneva Bible

Isaiah 38:14 in Context — Isaiah 38

12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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.

15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

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What Does Isaiah 38:14 Mean?

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