Isaiah 38
Hezekiah Healed
1 aIn those days Hezekiah became ▼▼Lit sick to death
mortally ill. And cIsaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘ dSet your house in order, for you are going to die and not live.’” 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3and said, “ ePlease, Lord, just remember how I have fwalked before You gwholeheartedly and in truth, and hhave done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah iwept ▼▼Lit great weeping
profusely. 4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, 5“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add kfifteen years to your ▼▼Lit days
life. 6And I will msave you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city.”’ 7 “And this shall be the nsign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken: 8Behold, I will omake the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, go back ten steps.” So the psun’s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. 9 This is a writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and ▼▼Lit he lived after his illness
recovery: 10 I said, “ rIn the middle of my ▼▼Lit days
lifeI am to enter the tgates of Sheol;
I have been udeprived of the rest of my years.”
11 I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord vin the land of the living;
I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world.
12 “Like a shepherd’s wtent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a xweaver I yrolled up my life.
He zcuts me off from the loom;
From aaday until night You make an end of me.
13 “I composed my soul until morning.
abLike a lion --so He acbreaks all my bones,
From adday until night You make an end of me.
14 “ aeLike a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I afmoan like a dove;
My ageyes look wistfully to the heights;
Lord, I am oppressed, be my ahsecurity.
15 “ aiWhat shall I say?
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▼Targum and DSS And what shall I say for He
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;I will akwalk ▼
▼Or slowly
quietly all my years because of the ambitterness of my soul.16 “Lord, anby these things people live,
And in all these is the life of my spirit;
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▼Lit You will
,
apRestore me to health and aqlet me live!17 “Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
But You have ▼
▼As in some ancient versions; MT loved
,
askept my soul from the pit of ▼▼Or destruction
nothingness,For You have auhurled all my sins behind Your back.
18 “For avSheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down awto the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19 “It is the axliving who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A ayfather tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
20 “The Lord is certain to save me;
So we will azplay my songs on stringed instruments
baAll the days of our life bbat the house of the Lord.”
21 Now bcIsaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.” 22Then Hezekiah had said, “What is the bdsign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”
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