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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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")....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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38:14 Lord, (g-22) Others read 'Jehovah.'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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כְּ ס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף
אֶהְגֶּ֖ה...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_For me. He represents his disease, as an inexorable creditor._...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Hezekiah's Hymn of Praise...
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UNDERTAKE FOR ME:
Or, ease me...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 38:14 crane H5483 swallow H5693 chattered H6850 (H8770) mourned
H1897 (H8799) dove H3123 eyes H5869 fail...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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.
⇐...
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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-...
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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.)...
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SECTION II.—HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS, AND THE EMBASSY OF MERODACH-BALADAN
(Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1.).
EXPOSITION
The present chapte
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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...
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Ezekiel 7:16; Isaiah 59:11; Job 30:29; Lamentations 4:17; Nahum 2:7;...