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New American Standard Bible 2020

Isaiah 38:2-20

2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3and said, “1Please, Lord, just remember how I have 2walked before You 3wholeheartedly and in truth, and 4have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah 5wept 6profusely.

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 7fifteen years to your 8life. 6And I will 9save you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city.”’

7“And this shall be the 10sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken: 8Behold, I will 11make the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, go back ten steps.” So the 12sun’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 13recovery:10I said, “14In the middle of my 15life I am to enter the 16gates of Sheol; I have been 17deprived of the rest of my years.”11I said, “I will not see the Lord, The Lord 18in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world.12Like a shepherd’s 19tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a 20weaver I 21rolled up my life. He 22cuts me off from the loom; From 23day until night You make an end of me.13I composed my soul until morning. 24Like a lion--so He 25breaks all my bones, From 26day until night You make an end of me.1427Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I 28moan like a dove; My 29eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my 30security.

15“31What shall I say? 32For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will 33walk 34quietly all my years because of the 35bitterness of my soul.16Lord, 36by these things people live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; 3738Restore me to health and 39let me live!17Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; But You have 4041kept my soul from the pit of 42nothingness, For You have 43hurled all my sins behind Your back.18For 44Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down 45to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.19It is the 46living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A 47father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.20The Lord is certain to save me; So we will 48play my songs on stringed instruments 49All the days of our life 50at the house of the Lord.”

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Notes

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

Commentaries on Isaiah 38

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