38:1 And it came to pass at that time,
[that] Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of
Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give orders
concerning thy house: for thou shalt die, and not live.
38:2 And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
saying,
38:3 Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true
heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Ezekias wept
bitterly.
38:4 And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias,
38:5 Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I [will] add to thy time fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this [shall be] a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this
thing;
38:8 behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees [of the dial] by
which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down-- I will
turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by
which the shadow had gone down.
38:9 THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS
RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.
38:10 I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I
shall part with the remainder of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of
the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth:
I shall no more at all see man.
38:12 [My life] has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the
remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that
having pitched a tent takes it down [again]: my breath was with me as a
weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off [the] thread.
38:13 In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he
broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day [even] to night.
38:14 As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine
eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has
delivered me,
38:15 and removed the sorrow of my sol.
38:16 [Yea], O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast
revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.
38:17 For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast
cast all [my] sins behind me.
38:18 For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall
the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy
mercy.
38:19 The living shall bless thee, as I also [do]: for from this day shall I
beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,
38:20 O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the
psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.
38:21 Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them,
and apply them as a plaster, and thou shalt be well.
38:22 And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the
house of God. |
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto
death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and
not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the
LORD,
38:3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked
before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
38:4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 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.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do
this thing that he hath spoken;
38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone
down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten
degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the
living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I
have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness:
from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my
bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove:
mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for
me.
38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
38:16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life
of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my
soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins
behind thy back.
38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they
that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the
father to the children shall make known thy truth.
38:20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a
plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the
house of the LORD? |