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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Hezekiah Gets Sick and Almost Dies</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2KI 20:1-11">2 Kings 20.1-11</ref>; <ref loc="2CH 32:24-26">2 Chronicles 32.24-26</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v23_38_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.1" class="v23_38_1">1</span>About this time, Hezekiah got sick and was almost dead. So I went in and told him, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says you won't ever get well. You are going to die, and so you had better start doing what needs to be done.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_38_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.2" class="v23_38_2">2</span>Hezekiah turned toward the wall and prayed, </span><span class="v23_38_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.3" class="v23_38_3">3</span>“Don't forget that I have been faithful to you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>. I have obeyed you with all my heart, and I do whatever you say is right.” After this, he cried hard.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_38_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.4" class="v23_38_4">4</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> sent me </span><span class="v23_38_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.5" class="v23_38_5">5</span>with this message for Hezekiah:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v23_38_5">I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God, who was worshiped by your ancestor David. I heard you pray, and I saw you cry. I will let you live 15 more years, </span><span class="v23_38_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.6" class="v23_38_6">6</span>while I protect you and your city from the king of Assyria.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v23_38_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.7" class="v23_38_7">7</span>Now I will prove to you that I will keep my promise. </span><span class="v23_38_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.8" class="v23_38_8">8</span>Do you see the shadow made by the setting sun on the stairway built for King Ahaz? I will make the shadow go back ten steps.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_38_8">Then the shadow went back ten steps.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><h3 class="s1">King Hezekiah's Song of Praise</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_38_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.9" class="v23_38_9">9</span>This is what Hezekiah wrote after he got well:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.10" class="v23_38_10">10</span>I thought I would die</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_10">during my best years</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_10">and stay as a prisoner forever</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_10">in the world of the dead.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.11" class="v23_38_11">11</span>I thought I would never again</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_11">see you, my <span class="nd">Lord</span>,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_11">or any of the people</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_11">who live on this earth.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.12" class="v23_38_12">12</span>My life was taken from me</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_12">like the tent that a shepherd</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_12">pulls up and moves.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_12">You cut me off like thread</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_12">from a weaver's loom;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_12">you make a wreck of me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_12">day and night.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.13" class="v23_38_13">13</span>Until morning came, I thought</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_13">you would crush my bones</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_13">just like a hungry lion;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_13">both night and day</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_13">you make a wreck of me.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.14" class="v23_38_14">14</span>I cry like a swallow;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_14">I mourn like a dove.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_14">My eyes are red</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_14">from looking to you, <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_14">I am in terrible trouble.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_14">Please come and help me.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.15" class="v23_38_15">15</span>There's nothing I can say</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_15">in answer to you,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_15">since you are the one</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_15">who has done this to me.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_15">My life has turned sour;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_15">I will limp until I die.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.16" class="v23_38_16">16</span>Your words and your deeds</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_16">bring life to everyone,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_16">including me.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_16">Please make me healthy</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_16">and strong again.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.17" class="v23_38_17">17</span>It was for my own good</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_17">that I had such hard times.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_17">But your love protected me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_17">from doom in the deep pit,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_17">and you turned your eyes</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_17">away from my sins.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.18" class="v23_38_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> No one in the world of the dead</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_18">can thank you or praise you;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_18">none of those in the deep pit</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_18">can hope for you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_18">to show them</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_18">how faithful you are.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.19" class="v23_38_19">19</span>Only the living can thank you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_19">as I am doing today.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_19">Each generation tells the next</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_19">about your faithfulness.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.38.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.20" class="v23_38_20">20</span>You, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, will save me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_20">and every day that we live</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_20">we will sing in your temple</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v23_38_20">to the music</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v23_38_20">of stringed instruments.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Isaiah's Advice to Hezekiah</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_38_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.21" class="v23_38_21">21</span>I had told King Hezekiah's servants to put some mashed figs on the king's open sore, and he would get well. </span><span class="v23_38_22"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.38.22" class="v23_38_22">22</span>Then Hezekiah asked for proof that he would again worship in the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s temple.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">steps: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 8.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">of me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 13.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">help me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 14.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">There's … me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Your … me: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">deep pit: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The world of the dead, as in verse 18.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">38.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">about your faithfulness: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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