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Isa 38:14 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

a crane		Job 30:29; Psa 102:4-7
I did mourn		Isa 59:11; Eze 7:16; Nah 2:7
mine eyes		Psa 69:3; Psa 119:82,123; Psa 123:1-4; Lam 4:17
I am		Psa 119:122; Psa 143:7
undertake for me		or, ease me.

Correlating Passages

a crane

	Job 30:29	I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
	Psa 102:4	My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
	Psa 102:5	By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
	Psa 102:6	I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
	Psa 102:7	I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

I did mourn

	Isa 59:11	We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.
	Eze 7:16	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.
	Nah 2:7	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.

mine eyes

	Psa 69:3	I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
	Psa 119:82	Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
	Psa 119:123	Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
	Psa 123:1	[[A Song of degrees.]] Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
	Psa 123:2	Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
	Psa 123:3	Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
	Psa 123:4	Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
	Lam 4:17	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].

I am

	Psa 119:122	Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
	Psa 143:7	Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 38:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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