Isaiah 38 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Hezekiah Healed

(2Ki 20:1–11; 2Ch 32:24–26 )

Isa 38:1In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'

Isa 38:2

Isa 38:2And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,

Isa 38:3

Isa 38:3and saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth -- a great weeping.

Isa 38:4

Isa 38:4And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,

Isa 38:5

Isa 38:5Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,

Isa 38:6

Isa 38:6and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.

Isa 38:7

Isa 38:7And this is to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.

Isa 38:8

Isa 38:8Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.

Isa 38:9

Isa 38:9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:

Isa 38:10

Isa 38:10'I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

Isa 38:11

Isa 38:11I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

Isa 38:12

Isa 38:12My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

Isa 38:13

Isa 38:13I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

Isa 38:14

Isa 38:14As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.

Isa 38:15

Isa 38:15-- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

Isa 38:16

Isa 38:16Lord, by these do men live, And by all in them is the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

Isa 38:17

Isa 38:17Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

Isa 38:18

Isa 38:18For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

Isa 38:19

Isa 38:19The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

Isa 38:20

Isa 38:20Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah -- to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'

Isa 38:21

Isa 38:21And Isaiah saith, 'Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'

Isa 38:22

Isa 38:22And Hezekiah saith, 'What is the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Isaiah 38 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Hezekiah Healed

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