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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/38-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it came to pass at that time, <i>that</i> Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give orders concerning thy house: for thou shalt die, and not live. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I <i>will</i> add to thy time fifteen years. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And this <i>shall be</i> a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this thing; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees <i>of the dial</i> by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down - I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.<p> <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><i>My life</i> has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down <i>again</i>: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off <i>the</i> thread.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day <i>even</i> to night.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(38:14A)</font> and removed the sorrow of my soul.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><i>Yea</i>, O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all <i>my</i> sins behind me.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy mercy.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The living shall bless thee, as I also <i>do</i>: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and thou shalt be well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>