Isaiah 38 NKJV

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And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and said, “Remember now, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>loyal heart, and have done <i>what is</i> good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> came to Isaiah, saying, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. </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 from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.” ’ </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And this <i>is</i> the sign to you from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will do this thing which He has spoken: </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-10">“In the prime of my life</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-10">I shall go to the gates of Sheol;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-10">I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-11">“I shall not see <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span><span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Yah</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-11">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> in the land of the living;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-11">I shall observe man no more <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>among the inhabitants of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>the world.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My life span is gone,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-12">Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-12">I have cut off my life like a weaver.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-12">He cuts me off from the loom;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-12">From day until night You make an end of me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I have considered until morning—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-13">Like a lion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-13">So He breaks all my bones;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-13">From day until night You make an end of me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like a crane <i>or</i> a swallow, so I chattered;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-14">I mourned like a dove;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-14">My eyes fail <i>from looking</i> upward.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-14">O <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span><span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, I am oppressed;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-14"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>Undertake for me!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“What shall I say?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-15"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>He has both spoken to me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-15">And He Himself has done <i>it.</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-15">I shall walk carefully all my years</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-15">In the bitterness of my soul.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O Lord, by these <i>things men</i> live;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-16">And in all these <i>things is</i> the life of my spirit;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-16">So You will restore me and make me live.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Indeed <i>it was</i> for <i>my own</i> peace</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-17"><i>That</i> I had great bitterness;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-17">But You have lovingly <i>delivered</i> my soul from the pit of corruption,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-17">For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For Sheol cannot thank You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-18">Death cannot praise You;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-18">Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The living, the living man, he shall praise You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-19">As I <i>do</i> this day;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-19">The father shall make known Your truth to the children.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> <i>was ready</i> to save me;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-20">Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments</span><br /><span class="text Isa-38-20">All the days of our life, in the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.”</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"> <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 lump of figs, and apply <i>it</i> as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Hezekiah had said, “What <i>is</i> the sign that I shall go up to the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>?”</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18394a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:3">Isaiah 38:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>whole</i> or <i>peaceful</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18402b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:11">Isaiah 38:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i><span class="small-caps">Yah</span>, <span class="small-caps">Yah</span></i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18402c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:11">Isaiah 38:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX omits <i>among the inhabitants of the world</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18402d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:11">Isaiah 38:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with some Heb. mss.; MT, Vg. <i>rest;</i> Tg. <i>land</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18405e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:14">Isaiah 38:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with Bg.; MT, DSS <i>Lord</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18405f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:14">Isaiah 38:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Be my surety</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18406g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 38:15">Isaiah 38:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Vg.; DSS, Tg. <i>And shall I say to Him;</i> LXX omits first half of this verse</span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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