Isa 38:3 | NETfull | STEP | “Please, Lord . Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38:3

3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ^{▼▼ Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.} faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ^{▼▼ Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”} and how I have carried out your will.” ^{▼▼ Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”} Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ^{▼▼ Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”}