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During those days">a</a></span> Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. Then Amoz’s son Isaiah the prophet came to him and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, because you are going to die. You won’t recover.’”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Please, LORD,” he said, “Remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a true heart, and I have done what pleases you.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:3 Lit. done what is good in your eyes">b</a></span> And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then this message<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:4 Lit. Then the word">c</a></span> from the LORD came to Isaiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has to say: “I’ve heard your prayer and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and">d</a></span> I’ve seen your tears; so I will add fifteen years to your life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I’ll save you and this city from the<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:6 Lit. the hand of the">e</a></span> king of Assyria, and I’ll defend this city, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This is the LORD’s sign to you that the LORD will carry out this thing he has promised: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:8 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks upper">g</a></span> dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards.”’”</p> <p class="reg">Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down.</p> <p class="heading">Hezekiah’s Prayer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span> A composition by King Hezekiah of Judah, following his illness and recovery:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said, “Must I leave in the prime of my life?</p> <p class="poetry2">Must I be consigned to the control<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:10 Lit. gates; i.e. the place where legal cases were adjudicated">h</a></span> of Sheol?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:10 i.e. the realm of the afterlife">i</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Bitter are<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the rest of">j</a></span> my years!”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said, “I won’t see the LORD<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:11 Lit. Yah; So 1QIsaa; MT reads Yah Yah; MTmss read Lord">k</a></span> in the land of the living;</p> <p class="poetry2">and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:11 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and">l</a></span> I’ll no longer observe human beings</p> <p class="poetry2">among the denizens of the grave.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:11 Lit. cessation; or the end; So 1QIsaa MT; MTmss read the world">m</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My house has been plucked up and vanishes<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:12 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read and has been taken away">n</a></span> from me</p> <p class="poetry2">like a shepherd’s tent;</p> <p class="poetry2">like a weaver, I’ve taken account of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:12 So 1QIsaa; MT reads have rolled up">o</a></span> my life,</p> <p class="poetry2">and he cuts me off from the loom—</p> <p class="poetry2">day and night you make an end of me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I’ve been swept bare<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="8:13 So 1QIsaa; or I cried for help; MT reads I was composed; cf. Targ">p</a></span> until morning;</p> <p class="poetry2">just like a lion, he breaks all my bones—</p> <p class="poetry2">day and night you make an end of me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like a swallow or a crane I chirp,</p> <p class="poetry2">I moan like a dove.</p> <p class="poetry2">My eyes look weakly upward.</p> <p class="poetry2">O Lord,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:14 So 1QIsaa MT; 1QIsab reads LORD ">q</a></span> I am oppressed, so<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:14 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks so">r</a></span> stand up for me!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What can I say, so I tell myself,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:15 So 1QIsaa; MT reads for he has spoken to me">s</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">since he has done this to me?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:15 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and it is he who has done it">t</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">I will walk slowly all my years</p> <p class="poetry2">because of my soul’s anguish.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“My Lord is against them, yet they live,</p> <p class="poetry2">and among all of them who live is his spirit.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads is the life of my spirit">u</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Now you have restored me to health,</p> <p class="poetry2">so let me live!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Yes, it was for my own good</p> <p class="poetry2">that I suffered extreme anguish.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:17 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read bitter, bitter ">v</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">But in love you have held back<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:17 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads you have loved">w</a></span> my life</p> <p class="poetry2">from the Pit<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:17 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife">x</a></span> in which it has been confined;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:17 So 1QIsaa; MT reads pit of destruction">y</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">you have tossed all my sins</p> <p class="poetry2">behind your back.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For Sheol<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:18 i.e. the realm of the afterlife">z</a></span> cannot thank you,</p> <p class="poetry2">death cannot<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; implied in 1QIsab MT">aa</a></span> sing your praise;</p> <p class="poetry2">and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:18 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and">bb</a></span> those who go down to the Pit<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:18 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife">cc</a></span> cannot hope</p> <p class="poetry2">for your faithfulness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The living—yes the living—they thank you,</p> <p class="poetry2">just as I am doing today;</p> <p class="poetry2">fathers will tell their children</p> <p class="poetry2">about your faithfulness.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD will save me,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:20 At this point a later scribe inserted into 1QIsaa a repetition of v. 19 and the beginning of v. 20, but with some different spellings and a word missing.">dd</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and we will play my music on strings</p> <p class="poetry2">all the days of our lives</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">in the LORD’s Temple.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title=" 38:20 The same second scribe continued with the rest of this verse; not originally in 1QIsaa.">ee</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Isaiah had said, “Let them prepare<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:21 So MT; LXX reads Take; 1QIsaa lacks Let them prepare">ff</a></span> a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hezekiah also had asked, “What will be the sign for me to go up to the LORD’s Temple?”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="38:21-22 So 1QIsab MT LXX; 1QIsaa lacks vs. 21-22; a later, third scribe, includes vs. 21-22">gg</a></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 38:1 Lit. <i>During those days</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 38:3 Lit. <i>done what is good in your eyes</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 38:4 Lit. <i>Then the word</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 38:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 38:6 Lit. <i>the hand of the</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 38:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 38:8 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>upper</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 38:10 Lit. <i>gates</i>; i.e. the place where legal cases were adjudicated<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 38:10 i.e. the realm of the afterlife<br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 38:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>the rest of</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 38:11Lit. <i>Yah</i>; So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>Yah Yah</i>; MTmss read <i>Lord</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 38:11 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 38:11 Lit. <i>cessation</i>; or <i>the end</i>; So 1QIsaa MT; MTmssread <i>the world</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 38:12 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read <i>and has been taken away</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 38:12 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>have rolled up</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 8:13 So 1QIsaa; or <i>I cried for help</i>; MT reads <i>I was composed</i>; cf. Targ<br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 38:14 So 1QIsaa MT; 1QIsab reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 38:14 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>so</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 38:15 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>for he has spoken to me</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 38:15 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>and it is he who has done it</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 38:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>is the life of my spirit</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 38:17 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read <i>bitter, bitter</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 38:17 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads <i>you have loved</i><br /><span class="fnb">x</span> 38:17 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife<br /><span class="fnb">y</span> 38:17 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>pit of destruction</i><br /><span class="fnb">z</span> 38:18 i.e. the realm of the afterlife<br /><span class="fnb">aa</span> 38:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; implied in 1QIsab MT<br /><span class="fnb">bb</span> 38:18 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">cc</span> 38:18 i.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife<br /><span class="fnb">dd</span> 38:20 At this point a later scribe inserted into 1QIsaa a repetition of v. 19 and the beginning of v. 20, but with some different spellings and a word missing.<br /><span class="fnb">ee</span> 38:20 The same second scribe continued with the rest of this verse; not originally in 1QIsaa.<br /><span class="fnb">ff</span> 38:21 So MT; LXX reads <i>Take</i>; 1QIsaa lacks <i>Let them prepare</i><br /><span class="fnb">gg</span> 38:21-22 So 1QIsab MT LXX; 1QIsaa lacks vs. 21-22; a later, third scribe, includes vs. 21-22<br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/37.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 37"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 37" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/39.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 39"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 39" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/isaiah/38-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>