Isaiah 38:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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; undertakec for me. ”

Isaiah 38:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Like a crane - The word used here ( סוּס sûs ) usually denotes a horse. The rabbis render it here ‘a crane.’ Gesenius translates it ‘a swallow;’ and in his Lexicon interprets the word which is...
Isaiah 38:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Like a crane [or] a swallow, so I (m) chattered: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. (m) I was so oppressed with sorrow, that I was not...
Isaiah 38:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19 , and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal...
Isaiah 38:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Like. crane or. swallow: or, like. twittering swallow. mourn. See note on Psalms 55:17 . Compare Ezekiel 7:16 . undertake . be. surety. Compare Job 17:3 ("put me in surety").
Isaiah 38:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. As a crane, or a swallow. Hezekiah cannot satisfy himself in explaining the severity of his anguish. He now says that he was reduced so low that he could not utter an articulate voice, b...
Isaiah 38:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 916 HELP FOR US IN GOD Isaiah 38:14 . O Lord, I am oppressed: undertake for me! THE time of death is an awful season to every child of man: but it may be more or less terrible, acco...
Isaiah 38:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - כסיס kesis;...
Isaiah 38:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Like a crane, or a swallow— That is, "My pains were sometimes so violent, that they forced me to cry aloud; at other times my strength was so exhausted, that I could only groan inwardly, and bemoan...
Isaiah 38:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: -The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages...
Isaiah 38:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Sickness and Recovery of Hezekiah Continuation of the historical appendix to Isaiah's prophecies. The chapter is parallel to 2 Kings 20:1-11 (where see notes), but contains a considerable additi...
Isaiah 38:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Like a crane... — The three birds — strictly, the “swift,” the “crane,” the “dove” — each with its special note of lamentation, represent, as it were, the cries of pain and the low suppressed wail...
Isaiah 38:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1-6 ; Isaiah 21:1-10 ; Isaiah 38:1-22 ; Isaiah 39:1-8 FROM 720, when chapter 11 may have been published, to 705-or, by rough reckoni...
Isaiah 38:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have the story of the sickness of Hezekiah. That sickness would seem to have been intimately connected with the invasion of Sennacherib, for in Isaiah's message to Hezekiah that hi...
Isaiah 38:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Like a crane, or a swallow, so did I chatter ,.... Rather, "like a crane and a swallow", like both; sometimes loud and clamorous, like a crane o, when the pain was very acute and grievous; and somet...
Isaiah 38:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I c...
Isaiah 38:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I reckoned till morning , &c. When night came I reckoned I should die before the next morning, my pains being as great as if my bones had been broken, and the whole frame of my body crushed by a...
Isaiah 38:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. B. C. 710. 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he h...
Isaiah 38:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Like a crane or a swallow; or, a crane and a swallow ; the conjunction and being here, as it is Habakkuk 3:11 , and elsewhere, understood, as is manifest from Jeremiah 8:7 , where it is ex...
Isaiah 38:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hezekiah's Psalm of Praise ( Isaiah 38:9-20 ). Isaiah 38:9 ‘The writing of Hezekiah the king of Judah when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness.' This was clearly originally a...
Isaiah 38:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER Isaiah 38:1-19 In this narrative there are three points of difficulty and many points of instruction. I. THREE POINTS OF DIFFICULTY. 1. Why was Hezekiah afraid to die? Answer...
Isaiah 38:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 38:14 These are some of the words which King Hezekiah wrote when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. This is surely a good prayer for a sick man, and it is a good prayer fo...
Isaiah 38:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 38:1 . Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live. This burden of the Lord placed the prophet in a critical situation. God saw that nothing milder than this harsh and tremen...
Isaiah 38:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah Hezekiah’s recovery 1. He was sick, and then he prayed. 2. He is recovered, and now he gives thanks. ( R. Harris, D. D. ) Hezekiah’s song I. THE I...
Isaiah 38:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION II .— HEZEKIAH 'S ILLNESS , AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH - BALADAN ( Isaiah 38:1-23 ; Isaiah 39:1-23 .). EXPOSITION The present chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 20:1-12 ,...
Isaiah 38:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hezekiah's Hymn of Praise
Isaiah 38:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 7:16 ; Isaiah 59:11 ; Job 30:29 ; Lamentations 4:17 ; Nahum 2:7 ; Psalms 102:4-7 ; Psalms 119:122 ; Psalms 119:123 ; Psalms 119:82 ; Psalms 123:1-4 ; Psalms 143:7 ; Psalms 69:3

Isaiah 38:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 38:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 38:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 38:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 38:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 38:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 38:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 38:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 38:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 38:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 38:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 38:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 38:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 38:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge