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Isaiah 38:9-22

9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:I am deprived of the residue of my years.11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living:I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent:I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.13I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.14Like a swallowora crane, so did I chatter;I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward:O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.16O Lord, by these things men live;And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.17Behold, it wasformypeacethatI had great bitterness: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.18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:The father to the children shall make known thy truth.20Jehovah isreadyto save me:Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?

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