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38 : 1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, `Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.`"
38 : 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
38 : 3 and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight " And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
38 : 4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
38 : 5 Go and say to Hezekiah, `Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
38 : 6 I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.`
38 : 7 This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken:
38 : 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps So the sun`s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.
38 : 9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
38 : 10 I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years."
38 : 11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, The LORD in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
38 : 12 Like a shepherd`s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.
38 : 13 I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion--so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me.
38 : 14 Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.
38 : 15 What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
38 : 16 O Lord, by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live!
38 : 17 Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
38 : 18 For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
38 : 19 It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
38 : 20 The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD.
38 : 21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."
38 : 22 Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"