Sorrow for the Doomed Nation

19 O my (A)soul, my soul!
I am pained in my very heart!
My heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

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14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered;
(A)I mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O [a]Lord, I am oppressed;
[b]Undertake for me!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:14 So with Bg.; MT, DSS Lord
  2. Isaiah 38:14 Be my surety

You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

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I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.

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