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Isaiah 38 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery

(2Ki 20:1–11; 2Ch 32:24–26 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:2 - Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:3 - and said, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:4 - Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:5 - “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:7 - “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:8 - Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:9 - A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:10 - I said, In the middle[fn] of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:11 - I said, I shall not see the LORD,
the LORD in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 - My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 - I calmed myself[fn] until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:14 - Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:15 - What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:16 - O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:17 - Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:18 - For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:19 - The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:20 - The LORD will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
at the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 - Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:22 - Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”
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ESV Footnotes
Or live; also verses 9, 21
Hebrew to your days
The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
Or In the quiet
Or (with Targum) I cried for help
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