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The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’” <A name="3"></a><p class="reg"><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, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” <p class="reg"> So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I said, “In the prime<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> of my life <p class="indent2"> I must go through the gates of Sheol <p class="indent2"> and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I said, “I will never again see the LORD, <p class="indent2"> even the LORD, in the land of the living; <p class="indent1"> I will no longer look on mankind <p class="indent2"> with those who dwell in this world. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me <p class="indent2"> like a shepherd’s tent. <p class="indent1"> I have rolled up my life like a weaver; <p class="indent2"> He cuts me off from the loom; <p class="indent2"> from day until night You make an end of me. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I composed myself<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> until the morning. <p class="indent2"> Like a lion He breaks all my bones; <p class="indent2"> from day until night You make an end of me. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I chirp like a swallow or crane; <p class="indent2"> I moan like a dove. <p class="indent1"> My eyes grow weak as I look upward. <p class="indent2"> O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.” <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What can I say? <p class="indent2"> He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. <p class="indent1"> I will walk slowly all my years <p class="indent2"> because of the anguish of my soul. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O Lord, by such things men live, <p class="indent2"> and in all of them my spirit finds life. <p class="indent1"> You have restored me to health <p class="indent2"> and have let me live. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Surely for my own welfare <p class="indent2"> I had such great anguish; <p class="indent1"> but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, <p class="indent2"> for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For Sheol cannot thank You; <p class="indent2"> Death cannot praise You. <p class="indent1"> Those who descend to the Pit <p class="indent2"> cannot hope for Your faithfulness. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The living, only the living, can thank You, <p class="indent2"> as I do today; <p class="indent1"> fathers will tell their children <p class="indent2"> about Your faithfulness. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD will save me; <p class="indent2"> we will play songs on stringed instruments <p class="indent1"> all the days of our lives <p class="indent2"> in the house of the LORD. <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/38-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> MT and LXX; DSS includes <i>for My sake and for the sake of My servant David</i>; see <a href="../2_kings/20.htm#6">2 Kings 20:6</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>In the quiet</i> or <i>In the middle</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>I cried out</i>; see Targum Yonaton.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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