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Bookmark this verse Isaiah 38
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In those◦ days was· Hezekiah◦ ·sick unto death. And Isaiah◦ the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to▵ him, and said to▵ him, Thus says Jehovah: Command for thy house; for thou◦ art dying, and shalt not live.
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And Hezekiah◦ turned··around his face to▵ the wall◦, and prayed to▵ Jehovah.
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And he said, I pray◦ Thee, Jehovah, remember now◦ how▫ I have walked before Thee in truth, and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Thine eyes. And Hezekiah◦ wept with great weeping.
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And the word of Jehovah was to▵ Isaiah◦, saying,
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Go◦, and say unto▵ Hezekiah◦, Thus says Jehovah, God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tear1; behold, I◦ will add onto◦ thy days fifteen years.
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And from the palm of the hand of the king of Assyria I will rescue thee and this city; and I will defend this city.
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And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this word which He has spoken:
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Behold, I◦ will turn··back the shadow of the stairs, by which the sun goes··down on◦ the stairs of Ahaz, ten stairs backward, that the sun may return ten stairs, on the stairs by which it had gone··down2.
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The writing of◦ Hezekiah◦, the king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had lived from his sickness:
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I said, in the stillness of my days, I shall go into the gates of hell; I am numbered◦ as to the remainder of my years!
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I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living! I shall not look··on man any··more with the inhabitants◦ of the world◦3!
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My generation has journeyed, and is exiled from me as the tent of a shepherd; I have cut off my life as a weaver; from the poor he has gained me, from day until night wilt Thou wholly put an end to4 me.
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I disposed myself until morning; as a lion, so did He break all my bones; from day until night wilt Thou wholly put an end to me.
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As the crane5 or the agur6, so did I chirp; I moaned as a dove; my eyes became··poor7 with looking to the heights. O Jehovah, for me there is oppression; be· my ·surety.
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What shall I speak? And He talked to me, and He has done it; I will proceed all my years on··account··of the bitterness of my soul.
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O Lord, by these things they live, and in all these is the life of my spirit; so wilt Thou recover me, and make· me ·to··live.
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Behold, for peace there was· bitter ·bitterness to me. Thou◦ desirest▵ to deliver my soul from the ditch where there is nothing▵; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back8.
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For hell will not give· Thee ·thanks, nor death praise Thee; they who go··down to the pit shall not put· their ·expectation in Thy truth;
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the living, the living, he shall confess Thee, as▵ I do today; the father to the sons shall make known Thy truth.
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Jehovah was for my salvation; and we shall strum my neginoth9 all the days of our life, at the house of Jehovah.
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And Isaiah◦ had said, Let them lift a clump of figs, and crumple it upon the ulcer, and he shall live.
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And Hezekiah◦ had said, What is the sign that I shall go··up to the house of Jehovah?
1“Tear” is singular in Hebrew.
2See AE 401:18 concerning the sun standing still in Joshua 10:13.
3not the usual word for “world”; related to a Hebrew word for “cease” or “forbear”
4as in AC 9163:4, here and in the next verse
5Elsewhere in this translation, this Hebrew word is translated “horse.”
6a Hebrew name for a type of bird
7that is, grew weak, tired
8literally, “body”
9musical instruments (see AC 8337:5) which were strummed
