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Isaiah 38 NASB 1995
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And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>and said, “Remember now, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the word of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> came to Isaiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.”’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“This shall be the sign to you from the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, that the L<font size="1">ORD</font> will do this thing that He has spoken: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>“Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.” So the sun’s <i>shadow</i> went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>I said, “In the middle of my life<br> I am to enter the gates of Sheol;<br> I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>I said, “I will not see the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> The L<font size="1">ORD</font> in the land of the living;<br> I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;<br> As a weaver I rolled up my life.<br> He cuts me off from the loom;<br> From day until night You make an end of me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“I composed <i>my soul</i> until morning.<br> Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,<br> From day until night You make an end of me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“Like a swallow, <i>like</i> a crane, so I twitter;<br> I moan like a dove;<br> My eyes look wistfully to the heights;<br> O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“What shall I say?<br> For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;<br> I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“O Lord, by <i>these</i> things <i>men</i> live,<br> And in all these is the life of my spirit;<br> O restore me to health and let me live!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“Lo, for <i>my own</i> welfare I had great bitterness;<br> It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,<br> For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“For Sheol cannot thank You,<br> Death cannot praise You;<br> Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today;<br> A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“The L<font size="1">ORD</font> will surely save me;<br> So we will play my songs on stringed instruments<br> All <i>the</i> days of our life at the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-21.htm" target="_top"><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" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>?”<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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