Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
The verse pictures Hezekiah in deep distress during his illness, uttering anguished, mournful cries like a bird's chattering and mourning as a dove, with eyes failing from looking upward, and pleading for the Lord to act on his behalf because he is oppressed. It belongs to his song of gratitude and testimony after his restoration, acknowledging God's compassion in sparing his life when all other hope had fled, with a vow to serve Him. The living God who spared him is confessed there as the One who intervenes when hope is gone.
The account is connected to the miraculous turning back of the shadow on the sundial as the sign that God had granted Hezekiah a new lease of life. In his severe illness and distress he cried to the Lord, and the Lord heard him and granted him fifteen more years of life. His healing involved a prescribed fig treatment, showing that prayer for healing can go together with the use of practical remedies.
The God who granted him favor is the upholder of all created things and the supreme sovereign. The experience of healing was to be told to seekers after truth from the plains of Chaldea to extol God and lead them to acknowledge His supreme sovereignty, with momentous transformations possible from such witness.