Isaiah 38
Hezekiah's
Sickness |
2 Kgs. 20.1-11 · 2 Chr.
32.24-26 |
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In those days was Hezeki'ah 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.
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Then Hezeki'ah turned his face toward the
wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
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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 Hezeki'ah wept sore.
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Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
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Go, and say to Hezeki'ah, 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.
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And I will deliver thee and this city out
of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this
city.
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And this shall be a sign unto
thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
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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.
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The writing of Hezeki'ah king of Judah,
when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
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I said in the cutting off of my days,
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I shall go to the gates of the grave: |
I am deprived of the residue of my
years. |
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I said, I shall not see the LORD,
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even the LORD, in the
land of the living: |
I shall behold man no more |
with the inhabitants of the
world. |
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Mine age is departed,
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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. |
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I reckoned till morning, that,
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as a lion, so will he break all my bones: |
from day even to night wilt thou make an end
of me. |
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Like a crane or a swallow, so did
I chatter:
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I did mourn as a dove: |
mine eyes fail with looking upward: |
O LORD, I am oppressed;
undertake for
me. |
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What shall I say?
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He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: |
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of
my soul.
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O Lord, by these things men live,
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and in all these things is the life of my
spirit: |
so wilt thou recover me, |
and make me to
live. |
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Behold, for peace I had great
bitterness;
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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. |
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For the grave cannot praise thee,
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death cannot celebrate thee: |
they that go down into the pit |
cannot hope for thy
truth. |
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The living, the living, he shall praise
thee,
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as I do this day: |
the father to the children |
shall make known thy
truth. |
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The LORD was
ready to save me:
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therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed
instruments |
all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
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For Isaiah had said, Let them take a
lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he
shall recover.
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Hezeki'ah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
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