Isaiah 38:14

Like a craneor 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. "chatter") to the note of the crane suggests that the latter may have been imported into the text from the passage in Jeremiah. It is wanting in the LXX.

I did mourn as a dove Cf. ch. Isaiah 59:11; Ezekiel 7:16; Nahum 2:7.

with looking upward lit. toward the height, where Jehovah dwells.

undertake for me become surety for me (Job 17:3). The image is that of a debtor who is being committed to prison.