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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 38 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/38.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/38-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Isaiah 38</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/37.htm" title="Isaiah 37">◄</a> Isaiah 38 <a href="../isaiah/39.htm" title="Isaiah 39">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/38.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or live; also verses 9, 21">a</a></sup></span> <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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and said, “Please, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Isaiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew to your days">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“This shall be the sign to you from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will do this thing that he has promised: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain">c</a></sup></span></p> <p class="extra-space"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I said, In the middle<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or In the quiet">d</a></sup></span> of my days</span><br /><span class="indent">I must depart;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I am consigned to the gates of Sheol</span><br /><span class="indent">for the rest of my years.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I said, I shall not see the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the land of the living;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I shall look on man no more</span><br /><span class="indent">among the inhabitants of the world.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me</span><br /><span class="indent">like a shepherd’s tent;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like a weaver I have rolled up my life;</span><br /><span class="indent">he cuts me off from the loom;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">from day to night you bring me to an end;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="indent">I calmed myself<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or (with Targum) I cried for help">e</a></sup></span> until morning;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like a lion he breaks all my bones;</span><br /><span class="indent">from day to night you bring me to an end.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;</span><br /><span class="indent">I moan like a dove.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">My eyes are weary with looking upward.</span><br /><span class="indent">O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he himself has done it.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I walk slowly all my years</span><br /><span class="indent">because of the bitterness of my soul.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O Lord, by these things men live,</span><br /><span class="indent">and in all these is the life of my spirit.</span><br /><span class="indent">Oh restore me to health and make me live!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, it was for my welfare</span><br /><span class="indent">that I had great bitterness;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but in love you have delivered my life</span><br /><span class="indent">from the pit of destruction,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for you have cast all my sins</span><br /><span class="indent">behind your back.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For Sheol does not thank you;</span><br /><span class="indent">death does not praise you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">those who go down to the pit do not hope</span><br /><span class="indent">for your faithfulness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The living, the living, he thanks you,</span><br /><span class="indent">as I do this day;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the father makes known to the children</span><br /><span class="indent">your faithfulness.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will save me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and we will play my music on stringed instruments</span><br /><span class="ln-group">all the days of our lives,</span><br /><span class="indent">at the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>live</i>; also verses 9, 21<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>to your days</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">In the</span> quiet</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or (with Targum) <i><span class="catch-word">I</span> cried for help</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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