Isaías 38:5

5 Ve y di a Ezequías: "Así dice el SEÑOR, Dios de tu padre David: 'He escuchado tu oración y he visto tus lágrimas; he aquí, añadiré quince años a tus días.

Isaías 38:5 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 38:5

Go and say to Hezekiah
Turn again, and tell him, ( 2 Kings 20:5 ) : thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father;
this is said, to show that he remembered the covenant he made with David his father, concerning the kingdom, and the succession of his children in it; and that he had a regard to him, as walking in his steps: I have heard thy prayer;
and therefore was not surely a foolish one, as Luther somewhere calls it, since it was heard and answered so quickly: I have seen thy tears;
which he shed in prayer, and so studiously concealed from others, when he turned his face to the wall: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years;
that is, to the days he had lived already, and beyond which it was not probable, according to the nature of his disease, he could live; and besides, he had the sentence of death pronounced on him, and had it within himself, nor did he pray for his life; so that these fifteen years were over and above what he could or did expect to live; and because it was unusual in such a case, and after such a declaration made, that a man should live, and especially so long a time after, it is ushered in with a "behold", as a note of admiration; it being a thing unheard of, and unprecedented, and entirely the Lord's doing, and which, no doubt, was marvellous in the eyes of the king.

Isaías 38:5 In-Context

3 y dijo: Te ruego, oh SEÑOR, que te acuerdes ahora de cómo yo he andado delante de ti en verdad y con corazón íntegro, y he hecho lo bueno ante tus ojos. Y Ezequías lloró amargamente.

4 Entonces la palabra del SEÑOR vino a Isaías, diciendo:

5 Ve y di a Ezequías: "Así dice el SEÑOR, Dios de tu padre David: 'He escuchado tu oración y he visto tus lágrimas; he aquí, añadiré quince años a tus días.

6 'Y te libraré a ti y a esta ciudad de la mano del rey de Asiria, y defenderé esta ciudad.'"

7 Esta será para ti la señal del SEÑOR, de que el SEÑOR hará lo que ha dicho: