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Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be you my collateral.
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God Hears Your Groans
Commentators explain that Hezekiah's 'chattering' like a crane and 'moaning' like a dove depict cries of pain so intense he couldn't form articulate words. His prayer was reduced to indistinct sounds. This is a comfort for believers in deep distress; as John Calvin notes, God hears these 'godly sighs' and 'groanings that cannot be uttered' (Romans 8:26) even when you feel you cannot properly pray.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Like a crane - The word used here (סוּס sûs) usually denotes a horse. The rabbis render it here “a crane.” Gesenius transl…
19th Century
Anglican
Like a crane ... — The three birds—strictly, the “swift,” the “crane,” the “dove”—each with its special note of lamentation, repre…
16th Century
Protestant
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 lo…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Like a crane, or a swallow, so I chattered Rather, "like a crane and a swallow", like both; sometimes loud and clamo…
Here we have Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is good for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. H…
13th Century
Catholic
1. In those days. In this part, the prophet describes some events resulting from the preceding history, namely, the sickness…
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