🕊️WEB · Isaiah 38:14

What does Isaiah 38:14 mean?

"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)

Surrounding context

11

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

13

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

14

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.”

15

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

16

Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

17

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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