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Isaiah 38 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Hezekiah Healed

38 ^(A)In those days Hezekiah became ^[a]mortally ill. And ^(B)Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘^(C)Set your house in order, for you are going to die and not live.’” ²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, ³and said, “^(D)Please, Lord, just remember how I have ^(E)walked before You ^(F)wholeheartedly and in truth, and ^(G)have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah ^(H)wept ^[b]profusely.

⁴Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, ⁵“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘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 ^(I)fifteen years to your ^[c]life. ⁶And I will ^(J)save you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city.”’

⁷“And this shall be the ^(K)sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken: ⁸Behold, I will ^(L)make the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, go back ten steps.” So the ^(M)sun’s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.

⁹This is a writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and ^[d]recovery:

¹⁰I said, “^(N)In the middle of my ^[e]life
I am to enter the ^(O)gates of Sheol;
I have been ^(P)deprived of the rest of my years.”
¹¹I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord ^(Q)in the land of the living;
I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world.
¹²Like a shepherd’s ^(R)tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a ^(S)weaver I ^(T)rolled up my life.
He ^(U)cuts me off from the loom;
From ^(V)day until night You make an end of me.
¹³I composed my soul until morning.
^(W)Like a lion—so He ^(X)breaks all my bones,
From ^(Y)day until night You make an end of me.
¹⁴^(Z)Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I ^(AA)moan like a dove;
My ^(AB)eyes look wistfully to the heights;
Lord, I am oppressed, be my ^(AC)security.

¹⁵“^(AD)What shall I say?
^[f]For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will ^(AE)walk ^[g]quietly all my years because of the ^(AF)bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, ^(AG)by these things people live,
And in all these is the life of my spirit;
^[h]^(AH)Restore me to health and ^(AI)let me live!
¹⁷Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
But You have ^[i]^(AJ)kept my soul from the pit of ^[j]nothingness,
For You have ^(AK)hurled all my sins behind Your back.
¹⁸For ^(AL)Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down ^(AM)to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
¹⁹It is the ^(AN)living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A ^(AO)father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
²⁰The Lord is certain to save me;
So we will ^(AP)play my songs on stringed instruments
^(AQ)All the days of our life ^(AR)at the house of the Lord.”

²¹Now ^(AS)Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.” ²²Then Hezekiah had said, “What is the ^(AT)sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”

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