14Like 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. …
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-22)We have here Hezekiah’s thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David , 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of…
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