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In those days was Hezekiahsick unto death . And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amozcame unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order : for thou shalt die , and not live .
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Then Hezekiahturned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
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And said , Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walkedbefore thee in truth and with a perfectheart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiahwept*sore.
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Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah,saying ,
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Go , and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy daysfifteen*years.
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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
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And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken ;
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Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sundial of Ahaz,tendegreesbackward. So the sunreturnedtendegrees, by which degrees it was gone down .
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The writing of Hezekiahking of Judah, when he had been sick , and was recovered of his sickness:
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I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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I said , I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall beholdman no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Mine age is departed , and is removed from me as a shepherd'stent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter : I did mourn as a dove: mine eyesfail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed;undertake for me.
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What shall I say ? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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O Lord, by these things men live , and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live .
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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness* : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinsbehind thy back.
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For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
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The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
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For Isaiah had said , Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover .
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Hezekiah also had said , What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?