Holy Scripture
Isaiah 38:15
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 15.) Like the chick of a swallow, so will I cry out: I will meditate as a dove: My eyes are weakened looking towards the height. Lord, I suffer violence; answer for me: what shall I say or what shall he answer me when he himself has done? LXX: Like a swallow, thus will I cry out; like a dove, thus will I medita…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15and removed the sorrow of my soul.
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In context
13In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.
14As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,
— Isaiah 38:15 —
16Yea, O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.
17For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.