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And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: ‘Thus saith the LORD: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and 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 unto the LORD, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and said: ‘Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.’ And Hezekiah wept sore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>‘Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. <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 Assyria; and I will defend this city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And this shall be the sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He hath spoken: <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>behold, I will cause the shadow of the dial, which is gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz, to return backward ten degrees.’ So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go,</div><div class="po2">Even to the gates of the nether-world;</div><div class="po2">I am deprived of the residue of my years.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said: I shall not see the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Even the LORD in the land of the living;</div><div class="po2">I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My habitation is plucked up and carried away from me</div><div class="po2">As a shepherd’s tent;</div><div class="po2">I have rolled up like a weaver my life;</div><div class="po2">He will cut me off from the thrum;</div><div class="po2">From day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning,</div><div class="po2">The more it breaketh all my bones;</div><div class="po2">From day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter,</div><div class="po2">I do moan as a dove;</div><div class="po2">Mine eyes fail with looking upward.</div><div class="po2">O LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me,</div><div class="po2">And Himself hath done it;</div><div class="po2">I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O Lord, by these things men live,</div><div class="po2">And altogether therein is the life of my spirit;</div><div class="po2">Wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness;</div><div class="po2">But Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it</div><div class="po2">From the pit of corruption;</div><div class="po2">For Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For the nether-world cannot praise Thee,</div><div class="po2">Death cannot celebrate Thee;</div><div class="po2">They that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The living, the living, he shall praise Thee,</div><div class="po2">As I do this day;</div><div class="po2">The father to the children shall make known Thy truth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD is ready to save me;</div><div class="po2">Therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments</div><div class="po2">All the days of our life in the house of the LORD.</div> <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Isaiah said: ‘Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Hezekiah said. ‘What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?’</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/38-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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