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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 38
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 says the LORD, Set
your house in order: for you shall 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 plead to you, how I have walked
before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which
is good in your 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 says the LORD, the God of David
your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold,
I will add unto your days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver you 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 you from the LORD, that the LORD
will do this thing that he has 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 will you 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 will you 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 has both spoken unto me, and himself has
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 will you recover me, and make me to live.
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love
to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all
my sins behind your back.
38:18 For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you:
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day:
the father to the children shall make known your 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 plaster 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?
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