Adam Clarke on Isaiah 38:14
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Isaiah38:14
Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - כסיס kesis; so read two MSS., Theodot., and Hieron.
Mine eyes fail - For דלו dallu the Septuagint read כלו calu, εξελιπον. Compare Psa 69:4; Psa 119:82, Psa 119:123; Lam 2:11; Lam 4:17, in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint.
O Lord "O Lord" - For יהוה Jehovah, thirty MSS. and eight editions read אדני Adonai.
Undertake for me "Contend for me" - עשקה ashekah, with ש shin, Jarchi: this sense of the word is established by Gen 26:20 : "He called the name of the well עשק esek, because they strove with him:" התעשקו hithasseku, equivalent to יריבו yaribu, at the beginning of the verse.
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