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New American Standard Bible 2020

Isaiah 38

Hezekiah Healed

11In those days Hezekiah became 2mortally ill. And 3Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘4Set 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, “5Please, Lord, just remember how I have 6walked before You 7wholeheartedly and in truth, and 8have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah 9wept 10profusely.

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 11fifteen years to your 12life. 6And I will 13save you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city.”’

7“And this shall be the 14sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken: 8Behold, I will 15make the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, go back ten steps.” So the 16sun’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 17recovery:10I said, “18In the middle of my 19life I am to enter the 20gates of Sheol; I have been 21deprived of the rest of my years.”11I said, “I will not see the Lord, The Lord 22in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world.12Like a shepherd’s 23tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a 24weaver I 25rolled up my life. He 26cuts me off from the loom; From 27day until night You make an end of me.13I composed my soul until morning. 28Like a lion--so He 29breaks all my bones, From 30day until night You make an end of me.1431Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I 32moan like a dove; My 33eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my 34security.

15“35What shall I say? 36For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will 37walk 38quietly all my years because of the 39bitterness of my soul.16Lord, 40by these things people live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; 4142Restore me to health and 43let me live!17Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; But You have 4445kept my soul from the pit of 46nothingness, For You have 47hurled all my sins behind Your back.18For 48Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down 49to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.19It is the 50living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A 51father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.20The Lord is certain to save me; So we will 52play my songs on stringed instruments 53All the days of our life 54at the house of the Lord.”

21Now 55Isaiah 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 56sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”

Notes

  1. 1. Isaiah 38:1 2 Kin 20:1-6, 9-11; 2 Chr 32:24; Is 38:1-8 ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 38:1 Lit sick to death ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 38:1 Is 1:1; 37:2 ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 38:1 2 Sam 17:23 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 38:3 Neh 13:14 ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 38:3 2 Kin 18:5, 6; Ps 26:3 ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 38:3 1 Chr 28:9; 29:19 ↩
  8. 8. Isaiah 38:3 Deut 6:18 ↩
  9. 9. Isaiah 38:3 Ps 6:6-8 ↩
  10. 10. Isaiah 38:3 Lit great weeping ↩
  11. 11. Isaiah 38:5 2 Kin 18:2, 13 ↩
  12. 12. Isaiah 38:5 Lit days ↩
  13. 13. Isaiah 38:6 Is 31:5; 37:35 ↩
  14. 14. Isaiah 38:7 Judg 6:17, 21, 36-40; Is 7:11, 14; 37:30 ↩
  15. 15. Isaiah 38:8 2 Kin 20:9-11 ↩
  16. 16. Isaiah 38:8 Josh 10:12-14 ↩
  17. 17. Isaiah 38:9 Lit he lived after his illness ↩
  18. 18. Isaiah 38:10 Ps 102:24 ↩
  19. 19. Isaiah 38:10 Lit days ↩
  20. 20. Isaiah 38:10 Ps 107:18 ↩
  21. 21. Isaiah 38:10 Job 17:11, 15; 2 Cor 1:9 ↩
  22. 22. Isaiah 38:11 Ps 27:13; 116:9 ↩
  23. 23. Isaiah 38:12 2 Cor 5:1, 4; 2 Pet 1:13, 14 ↩
  24. 24. Isaiah 38:12 Job 7:6 ↩
  25. 25. Isaiah 38:12 Heb 1:12 ↩
  26. 26. Isaiah 38:12 Job 6:9 ↩
  27. 27. Isaiah 38:12 Job 4:20; Ps 73:14 ↩
  28. 28. Isaiah 38:13 Job 10:16 ↩
  29. 29. Isaiah 38:13 Ps 51:8; Dan 6:24 ↩
  30. 30. Isaiah 38:13 Ps 32:4 ↩
  31. 31. Isaiah 38:14 Job 30:29; Ps 102:6 ↩
  32. 32. Isaiah 38:14 Is 59:11; Ezek 7:16; Nah 2:7 ↩
  33. 33. Isaiah 38:14 Ps 119:123 ↩
  34. 34. Isaiah 38:14 Job 17:3; Ps 119:122 ↩
  35. 35. Isaiah 38:15 Ps 39:9 ↩
  36. 36. Isaiah 38:15 Targum and DSS And what shall I say for He ↩
  37. 37. Isaiah 38:15 1 Kin 21:27 ↩
  38. 38. Isaiah 38:15 Or slowly ↩
  39. 39. Isaiah 38:15 Job 7:11; 10:1; Is 38:17 ↩
  40. 40. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 119:71, 75 ↩
  41. 41. Isaiah 38:16 Lit You will ↩
  42. 42. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 39:13 ↩
  43. 43. Isaiah 38:16 Ps 119:25 ↩
  44. 44. Isaiah 38:17 As in some ancient versions; MT loved ↩
  45. 45. Isaiah 38:17 Ps 30:3; 86:13; Jon 2:6 ↩
  46. 46. Isaiah 38:17 Or destruction ↩
  47. 47. Isaiah 38:17 Is 43:25; Jer 31:34; Mic 7:19 ↩
  48. 48. Isaiah 38:18 Ps 6:5; 30:9; 88:11; Eccl 9:10 ↩
  49. 49. Isaiah 38:18 Num 16:33; Ps 28:1 ↩
  50. 50. Isaiah 38:19 Ps 118:17; 119:175 ↩
  51. 51. Isaiah 38:19 Deut 6:7; 11:19; Ps 78:5-7 ↩
  52. 52. Isaiah 38:20 Ps 33:1-3; 68:24-26 ↩
  53. 53. Isaiah 38:20 Ps 104:33; 116:2; 146:2 ↩
  54. 54. Isaiah 38:20 Ps 116:17-19 ↩
  55. 55. Isaiah 38:21 2 Kin 20:7, 8 ↩
  56. 56. Isaiah 38:22 Is 38:7 ↩

Commentaries on Isaiah 38

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