Chapter 38
Isaiah · Prophet Isaiah
¹ And it came to pass at that time, [that] Hezekiah was sick even to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give orders concerning thy house: for thou shalt die, and not live. ² And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, ³ Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, ⁵ Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I [will] add to thy time fifteen years. ⁶ And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city. ⁷ And this [shall be] a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this thing; ⁸ behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees [of the dial] by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.
Isa 38:1-8
⁹ The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness.
Isa 38:9
¹⁰ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man. ¹² [My life] has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down [again]: my breath was with me as a weaver’s web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off [the] thread. ¹³ In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day [even] to night. ¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, ¹⁵ and removed the sorrow of my soul. ¹⁶ [Yea], O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live. ¹⁷ For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all [my] sins behind me. ¹⁸ For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy mercy. ¹⁹ The living shall bless thee, as I also [do]: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness, ²⁰ O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.
Isa 38:10-20