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Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Isaiah 38:14

Rather, "Like a swallow, or a crane" (from a root; "to disturb the water," a bird frequenting the water) [MAURER], (Jeremiah 8:7).

chatter--twitter: broken sounds expressive of pain.

dove--called by the Arabs the daughter of mourning, from its plaintive note (Isaiah 59:11).

looking upward--to God for relief.

undertake for--literally, "be surety for" me; assure me that I shall be restored (Psalms 119:122).

Isaiah 38:9-20

The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Isaiah 38:9 is the heading or inscription.

Other commentary entries containing this verse:

Psalms 119:122
Isaiah 35:10
Isaiah 38:13
Isaiah 59:11
Nahum 2:7

 

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