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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="../">AMP</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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/isaiah/38.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Hezekiah Healed</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In those days Hezekiah [king of Judah] became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, “For the LORD says this, ‘Set your house in order <i>and</i> prepare a will, for you shall die; you will not live.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and said, “Please, O LORD, just remember how I have walked before You in faithfulness <i>and</i> truth, and with a whole heart [absolutely devoted to You], and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept greatly. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘For the LORD, the God of David your father says this, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; listen carefully, I will add fifteen years to your life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city [Jerusalem].”’ <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“This shall be 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>Listen carefully, I will turn the shadow on the stairway [denoting the time of day] ten steps backward, <i>the shadow</i> on the stairway (<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>sundial) of Ahaz.” And the sunlight went ten steps backward on the stairway where it had [previously] gone down. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>This is the</i> writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness: <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said, “In mid-life <t><p class="indent1">I am to go through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead), <t><p class="indent1">I am to be summoned, <i>deprived of</i> the remainder of my years.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said, “I will not see the LORD, <t><p class="indent1">The LORD in the land of the living; <t><p class="indent1">I will no longer see man among the inhabitants of the world. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“My dwelling (body) is pulled up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; <t><p class="indent1">I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web]. <t><p class="indent1">He cuts me free from the warp [of the loom]; <t><p class="indent1">From day to night You bring me to an end. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“I lay down until morning. <t><p class="indent1">Like a lion, so He breaks all my bones; <t><p class="indent1">From day until night You bring me to an end. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirp; <t><p class="indent1">I coo like a dove. <t><p class="indent1">My eyes look wistfully upward; <t><p class="indent1">O Lord, I am oppressed, take my side <i>and</i> be my security. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“What shall I say? <t><p class="indent1">For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; <t><p class="indent1">I will wander aimlessly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“O Lord, by <i>these</i> things men live, <t><p class="indent1">And in all these is the life of my spirit; <t><p class="indent1">Restore me to health and let me live! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness; <t><p class="indent1">But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction), <t><p class="indent1">For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“For Sheol cannot praise <i>or</i> thank You, <t><p class="indent1">Death cannot praise You <i>and</i> rejoice in You; <t><p class="indent1">Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“It is the living who give praise <i>and</i> thanks to You, as I do today; <t><p class="indent1">A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“The LORD is ready to save me; <t><p class="indent1">Therefore we will play my songs on stringed instruments <t><p class="indent1">All the days of our lives at the house of the LORD.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs and rub it [as an ointment] on the inflamed spot, that he may recover.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Some suggest that this stairway was built to serve as a sundial; others think that it was just a stairway whose design happened to function as a kind of sundial. The Hebrew word simply means “ascent,” which can be a stair or a stairway. If it was fully exposed to the sun, the shadow must have been cast by some object, such as a pole. 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