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And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live. ' " <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done <i>that which is</i> good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then came the Word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And this <i>shall be</i> the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken: <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the sun dial, which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward." ' " So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it had gone down.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said in the cutting off of my days, "I shall go to the gates of the grave; I am deprived of the rest of my years."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said, "I shall not see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no longer with the people of the world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My dwelling is plucked up and carried away from me like a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I waited until morning, but, as a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even until night You make an end of me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like a crane <i>or</i> a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail <i>with looking</i> upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; be a surety for me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these <i>is</i> the life of my spirit; so You will recover me, and make me to live.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You have in love delivered my soul from the pit of corruption. You have cast all my sins behind Your back;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For the grave cannot praise You, death cannot rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I <i>do</i> this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the children,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the LORD will save me; and we will sing on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply <i>it</i> as a poultice upon the boil, and he shall recover." <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Hezekiah had said, "What <i>is</i> the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="https://afaithfulversion.org/">A Faithful Version</a><br><br>Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011<br>York Publishing Company<br>Post Office Box 1038<br>Hollister, California 95024-1038<br><br>All rights reserved.<br>All Scripture may be freely quoted except for brief excerpts for review purposes, no part of this publication may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means--electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or information storage and retrieval systems, or use of hermeneutical conclusions of copyright owner.<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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>