chapter_Isaiah_38
Isaiah 38:1: In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.' Isaiah 38:2: And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah, Isaiah 38:3: and saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth &#8212; a great weeping. Isaiah 38:4: And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying, Isaiah 38:5: Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years, Isaiah 38:6: and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city. Isaiah 38:7: And this is to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken. Isaiah 38:8: Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down. Isaiah 38:9: A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness: Isaiah 38:10: I &#8212; I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years. Isaiah 38:11: I said, I do not see Jah &#8212; Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world. Isaiah 38:12: My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me. Isaiah 38:13: I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me. Isaiah 38:14: As a crane &#8212; a swallow &#8212; so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety. Isaiah 38:15: &#8212; What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul. Isaiah 38:16: Lord, by these do men live, And by all in them is the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live, Isaiah 38:17: Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins. Isaiah 38:18: For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. Isaiah 38:19: The living, the living, he doth confess Thee. Isaiah 38:20: Like myself to-day &#8212; a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah &#8212; to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.' Isaiah 38:21: And Isaiah saith, 'Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.' Isaiah 38:22: And Hezekiah saith, 'What is the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
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