Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter, I did mourn as a dove, murmuring and groaning with querulous notes, with broken sounds expressive of pain; mine eyes fail with looking upward, with painful longing, and yet lifted up to the Lord. O Lord, I am oppressed, as a debtor hard pressed by his creditors; undertake for me, literally, "be surety for me," so that he would be delivered from this oppression.
Verse Isaiah 38:14. _LIKE-A SWALLOW_ - "Like the swallow"] כסיס _kesis_; so read two MSS., _Theodot_., and _Hieron_. _MINE EYES FAIL_] For דלו _dallu_ the _Septuagint_ read כלו _calu_, εξελιπον. Com...
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 transl...
CHAPTER 38 Hezekiah's Sickness and Healing 1. _Isaiah's startling message (Isaiah 38:1)_ 2. _Hezekiah's prayer (Isaiah 38:2)_ 3. _The prayer heard and the sign (Isaiah 38:4)_ 4. The king's sorrow and...
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 with th...
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")....
_Like a crane_or _a swallow_ Rather, as R.V., LIKE A SWALLOW OR A CRANE. Both words occur again only in Jeremiah 8:7. The want of a copula in Heb., and the unsuitability of the verb "chirp" (E.V. "cha...
Hezekiah's thanksgiving for his recovery. This poem, which is not given in the parallel narrative in 2 Kings, must have been inserted here from an independent source. An external mark of the insertion...
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, according...
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 my...
2. PRAISE TEXT: Isaiah 38:9-20 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates o...
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 of 2...
38:14 Lord, (g-22) Others read 'Jehovah.'...
SICKNESS AND RECOVERY OF HEZEKIAH Continuation of the historical appendix to Isaiah's prophecies. The chapter is parallel to 2 Kings 20:1 (where see notes), but contains a considerable addition in the...
MOURN] i.e. moan, referring to the sound made by the dove. UNDERTAKE FOR ME] RV 'be thou my surety': Genesis 43:9; Genesis 44:32....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 38 HEZEKIAH IS SERIOUSLY ILL V1 About that time, Hezekiah became very ill. He believe...
Hezekiah’s illness made him feel very depressed. (In other words, his inner feelings were deeply sad.) And this affected all of his life. Verses 10 and 18 Like many people at that time, Hezekiah tho...
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 of...
כְּ ס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה...
CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33, wi...
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 his...
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...
_For me. He represents his disease, as an inexorable creditor._...
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, but mutter...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39. Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...
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 sometime...
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 cha...
_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 lion...
UNDERTAKE FOR ME: Or, ease me...
9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lor...
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 expressed wit...
Isaiah 38:14 crane H5483 swallow H5693 chattered H6850 (H8770) mourned H1897 (H8799) dove H3123 eyes H5869 fail...
HEZEKIAH'S PSALM OF PRAISE (ISAIAH 38:9). 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 record on i...
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 for a...
CONTENTS: Hezekiah's sickness and recovery in answer to prayer. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: Neither men's greatness nor goodness will exempt them from the arrests of sickness. If o...
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 tremendou...
_I did mourn as a dove_ “I DID MOURN AS A DOVE” The possessions of the world are often the means of lightening life’s sorrows, and of increasing its enjoyments. What experience teaches us in this re...
_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 INSCRIPT...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 38:9 Hezekiah’s psalm is clear about this truth: God alone has the power of life and death, and he prefers life. ⇐...
A CRY FOR HELP Isaiah 38:14. _O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me_. This prayer ascended from a sick-bed. State Hezekiah’s circumstances. From many sick-beds it still ascends. 1. From the sick-...
HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER Isaiah 38:1 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: (1.)...
SECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN (Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1.). EXPOSITION The present chapte
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live (Isai...
Ezekiel 7:16; Isaiah 59:11; Job 30:29; Lamentations 4:17; Nahum 2:7;...