{"book":"Isaiah","slug":"isaiah","ch":38,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Isaiah","prev":"isaiah/37","next":"isaiah/39","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said,“ This is what the LORD says:‘ Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”","f":[],"h":"Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":3,"t":"saying,“ Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done [what is] good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"“ Go and tell Hezekiah that 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 fifteen years to your life.","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.","f":["MT and LXX; DSS includes for My sake and for the sake of My servant David; see 2 Kings 20:6."]},{"v":7,"t":"This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"","t":"I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’”"},{"style":"reg","t":"So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"[This is] a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:","f":[],"h":"Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving","style":"reg"},{"v":10,"t":"I said,“ In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol [and] be deprived of the remainder of my years.”","f":["Or In the quiet or In the middle"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"I said,“ In the prime of my life"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I must go through the gates of Sheol"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] be deprived of the remainder of my years.”"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":11,"t":"I said,“ I will never again see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I said,“ I will never again see the LORD,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[even] the LORD, in the land of the living;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"I will no longer look on mankind"},{"style":"indent2","t":"with those who dwell in this world."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like a shepherd’s tent."},{"style":"indent1","t":"I have rolled up my life like a weaver;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He cuts me off from the loom;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"from day until night You make an end of me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.","f":["Or I cried out; see Targum Yonaton."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I composed myself until the morning."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Like a lion He breaks all my bones;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"from day until night You make an end of me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak [as I look] upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I chirp like a swallow or crane;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I moan like a dove."},{"style":"indent1","t":"My eyes grow weak [as I look] upward."},{"style":"indent2","t":"O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"What can I say?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this."},{"style":"indent1","t":"I will walk slowly all my years"},{"style":"indent2","t":"because of the anguish of my soul."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":16,"t":"O Lord, by [such things] men live, and in all [of them] my spirit [finds] life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"O Lord, by [such things] men live,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and in all [of them] my spirit [finds] life."},{"style":"indent1","t":"You have restored me to health"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and have let me live."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":17,"t":"Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Surely for my own welfare"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I had such great anguish;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"for You have cast all my sins behind Your back."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":18,"t":"For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"For Sheol cannot thank You;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Death cannot praise You."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Those who descend to the Pit"},{"style":"indent2","t":"cannot hope for Your faithfulness."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":19,"t":"The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The living, only the living, can thank You,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"as I do today;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"fathers will tell their children"},{"style":"indent2","t":"about Your faithfulness."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":20,"t":"The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The LORD will save me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"we will play songs on stringed instruments"},{"style":"indent1","t":"all the days of our lives"},{"style":"indent2","t":"in the house of the LORD."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":21,"t":"Now Isaiah had said,“ Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"And Hezekiah had asked,“ What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”","f":[],"style":"reg"}]}