Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - kesis ; so read two MSS., Theodot., and Hieron.
Mine eyes fail - For dallu the Septuagint read calu , . Compare Psalms 69:4; Psalms 119:82, Psalms 119:123; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 4:17, in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint.
O Lord "O Lord" - For Jehovah , thirty MSS. and eight editions read Adonai .
Undertake for me "Contend for me" - ashekah , with shin , Jarchi: this sense of the word is established by Genesis 26:20 : "He called the name of the well esek , because they strove with him:" hithasseku , equivalent to yaribu , at the beginning of the verse.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 38:14:
2 Kings 20:3
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