Isaiah 38

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1. 1In those days, Hezekiah became deathly ill. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Set your house in order, for you will die and not live.'"
2. 2Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.
3. 3He said, "Please remember, LORD, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in your sight." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4. 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
5. 5Go tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD, the God of David your father, says: I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life.'
6. 6I will rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.'"
7. 7"And this will be the sign from the LORD that he will do exactly what he has promised:
8. 8Look, I will bring back the shadow of the degrees that has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz, 10 degrees backward. So the sun returned 10 degrees, by the degrees it had gone down.
9. 9This is what King Hezekiah of Judah wrote after he had been sick and recovered from his illness:
10. 10I said, 'In the middle of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.'
11. 11I said, 'I will never again see the LORD — the LORD — in the land of the living. I will never again look on another human being among those who dwell in this world.
12. 12My lifetime has departed and is removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have cut off my life like a weaver; he will cut me off with a wasting sickness. From day to night you will make an end of me.
13. 13I thought until morning that, like a lion, he would break all my bones. From day to night you will make an end of me.
14. 14I chirped like a crane or swallow and moaned like a dove. My eyes grew weak from looking upward. LORD, I am oppressed; come to my aid.
15. 15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16. 16O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: you will recover me and make me live.
17. 17Look, I had great bitterness instead of peace, but in your love for my soul, you delivered it from the pit of corruption, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
18. 18The grave cannot praise you. Death cannot celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.
19. 19The living, the living, they shall praise you, as I do today; the father will make your truth known to the children.
20. 20The LORD was ready to save me; therefore, we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
21. 21Now Isaiah had instructed them, "Take a cake of pressed figs and apply it as a poultice to the boil, and he will recover."
22. 22Hezekiah had also asked, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?"