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New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 38:9-22

9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and 1recovery:10I said, “2In the middle of my 3life I am to enter the 4gates of Sheol; I am to be 5deprived of the rest of my years.”11I said, “I will not see the Lord, The Lord 6in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.12Like a shepherd’s 7tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a 8weaver I 9rolled up my life. He 10cuts me off from the loom; From 11day until night You make an end of me.13I composed my soul until morning. 12Like a lion--so He 13breaks all my bones, From 14day until night You make an end of me.1415Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I 16moan like a dove; My 17eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my 18security.

15“19What shall I say? 20For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will 21wander about all my years because of the 22bitterness of my soul.16O Lord, 23by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; 2425O restore me to health and 26let me live!17Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has 2728kept my soul from the pit of 29nothingness, For You have 30cast all my sins behind Your back.18For 31Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down 32to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.19It is the 33living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A 34father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.20The Lord will surely save me; So we will 35play my songs on stringed instruments 36All the days of our life 37at the house of the Lord.”

21Now 38Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” 22Then Hezekiah had said, “What is the 39sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”

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Notes

  1. 1. Isaiah 38:9 Lit he lived after his illness ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 38:10 Ps 102:24 ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 38:10 Lit days ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 38:10 Ps 107:18 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 38:10 Job 17:11, 15; 2 Cor 1:9 ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 38:11 Ps 27:13; 116:9 ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 38:12 2 Cor 5:1, 4; 2 Pet 1:13, 14 ↩
  8. 8. Isaiah 38:12 Job 7:6 ↩
  9. 9. Isaiah 38:12 Heb 1:12 ↩
  10. 10. Isaiah 38:12 Job 6:9 ↩
  11. 11. Isaiah 38:12 Job 4:20; Ps 73:14 ↩
  12. 12. Isaiah 38:13 Job 10:16 ↩
  13. 13. Isaiah 38:13 Ps 51:8; Dan 6:24 ↩
  14. 14. Isaiah 38:13 Ps 32:4 ↩
  15. 15. Isaiah 38:14 Job 30:29; Ps 102:6 ↩
  16. 16. Isaiah 38:14 Is 59:11; Ezek 7:16; Nah 2:7 ↩
  17. 17. Isaiah 38:14 Ps 119:123 ↩
  18. 18. Isaiah 38:14 Job 17:3; Ps 119:122 ↩
  19. 19. Isaiah 38:15 Ps 39:9 ↩
  20. 20. Isaiah 38:15 Targum and DSS read And what shall I say for He ↩
  21. 21. Isaiah 38:15 1 Kin 21:27 ↩
  22. 22. Isaiah 38:15 Job 7:11; 10:1; Is 38:17 ↩
  23. 23. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 119:71, 75 ↩
  24. 24. Isaiah 38:16 Lit You will ↩
  25. 25. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 39:13 ↩
  26. 26. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 119:25 ↩
  27. 27. Isaiah 38:17 So some versions; Heb loved ↩
  28. 28. Isaiah 38:17 Ps 30:3; 86:13; Jon 2:6 ↩
  29. 29. Isaiah 38:17 Or destruction ↩
  30. 30. Isaiah 38:17 Is 43:25; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:19 ↩
  31. 31. Isaiah 38:18 Ps 6:5; 30:9; 88:11; Eccl 9:10 ↩
  32. 32. Isaiah 38:18 Num 16:33; Ps 28:1 ↩
  33. 33. Isaiah 38:19 Ps 118:17; 119:175 ↩
  34. 34. Isaiah 38:19 Deut 6:7; 11:19; Ps 78:5-7 ↩
  35. 35. Isaiah 38:20 Ps 33:1-3; 68:24-26 ↩
  36. 36. Isaiah 38:20 Ps 104:33; 116:2; 146:2 ↩
  37. 37. Isaiah 38:20 Ps 116:17-19 ↩
  38. 38. Isaiah 38:21 2 Kin 20:7, 8 ↩
  39. 39. Isaiah 38:22 Is 38:7 ↩

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