Isaiah 38:14-19 I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me. ¹⁵ What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live. ¹⁷ Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. ¹⁸ For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.