a crane: Job 30:29; Psalms 102:4-7
I did mourn: Isaiah 59:11; Ezekiel 7:16; Nahum 2:7
mine eyes: Psalms 69:3, Psalms 119:82, Psalms 119:123, Psalms 123:1-4; Lamentations 4:17
I am: Psalms 119:122, Psalms 143:7
undertake for me: or, ease me
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Isaiah 38:14
Isaiah 38:14
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