Isaiah 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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cross-References
“Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;”
“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”
“My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.”
“I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.”
“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.”