14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered;
(A)I mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O [a]Lord, I am oppressed;
[b]Undertake for me!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:14 So with Bg.; MT, DSS Lord
  2. Isaiah 38:14 Be my surety

14 I cried like a swift or thrush,
    I moaned like a mourning dove.(A)
My eyes grew weak(B) as I looked to the heavens.
    I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”(C)

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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.

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16 ‘Those who (A)survive will escape and be on the mountains
Like doves of the valleys,
All of them mourning,
Each for his iniquity.

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16 The fugitives(A) who escape
    will flee to the mountains.
Like doves(B) of the valleys,
    they will all moan,
    each for their own sins.(C)

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16 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.

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