Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 In those days was Hizkiyahu sick to death. Yesha`yahu the prophet the son of Amotz came to him, and said to him, Thus says the LORD, Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
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In 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.'
2 Then Hizkiyahu turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD,
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And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,
3 and said, Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hizkiyahu wept sore.
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and 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.
4 Then came the word of the LORD to Yesha`yahu, saying,
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And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, and tell Hizkiyahu, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
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Go, 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,
6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Ashshur; and I will defend this city.
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and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
7 This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken:
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And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.
8 behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Achaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
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Lo, 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.
9 The writing of Hizkiyahu king of Yehudah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
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A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of She'ol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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`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.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living: I shall see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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I 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.
12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
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My 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.
13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
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I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.
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As 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.
15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
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-- 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.
16 Lord, by these things men live; Wholly therein is the life of my spirit: You restore me, and cause me to live.
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Lord, 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,
17 Behold, [it was] for [my] shalom [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.
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Lo, 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.
18 For She'ol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
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For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known your truth.
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The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
20 The LORD is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
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Like 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.'
21 Now Yesha`yahu had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover.
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And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'
22 Hizkiyahu also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
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And Hezekiah saith, `What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
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