Isaías 38:10-20

10 «Yo decía: “¿Debo, en la plenitud de mi vida,pasar por las puertas del sepulcroy ser privado del resto de mis días?”

11 Yo decía: “Ya no veré más al SEÑORen esta tierra de los vivientes;ya no contemplaré más a los seres humanos,a los que habitan este mundo”.^[a]

12 Me quitaron mi casa, me la arrebataron,como si fuera la carpa de un pastor.Como un tejedor, enrollé mi vida,y él me la arrancó del telar.¡De la noche a la mañana acabó conmigo!

13 Pacientemente esperé hasta la aurora,pero él, como león, me quebró todos los huesos.¡De la noche a la mañana acabó conmigo!

14 Chillé como golondrina, como grulla;¡me quejé como paloma!Mis ojos se cansaron de mirar al cielo.¡Angustiado estoy, Señor!¡Acude en mi ayuda!

15 »Pero ¿qué puedo decir?Él mismo me lo anunció, y así lo ha hecho.La amargura de mi almame ha quitado el sueño.

16 Señor, por tales cosas viven los hombres,y también mi espíritu encuentra vida en ellas.Tú me devolviste la saludy me diste vida.

17 Sin duda, fue para mi bienpasar por tal angustia.Con tu amor me guardastede la fosa destructora,y le diste la espalda a mis pecados.

18 El sepulcro nada te agradece;la muerte no te alaba.Los que descienden a la fosanada esperan de tu fidelidad.

19 Los que viven, y solo los que viven,son los que te alaban,como hoy te alabo yo.Todo padre hablará a sus hijosacerca de tu fidelidad.

20 »El SEÑOR me salvará,y en el templo del SEÑORtodos los días de nuestra vidacantaremos con instrumentos de cuerda».

Isaías 38:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 38

This chapter gives an account of Hezekiah's sickness, recovery, and thanksgiving on that account. His sickness, and the nature of it, and his preparation for it, as directed to by the prophet, Isa 38:1, his prayer to God upon it, Isa 38:2,3 the answer returned unto it, by which he is assured of living fifteen years more, and of the deliverance and protection of the city of Jerusalem from the Assyrians, Isa 38:4-6, the token of his recovery, the sun going back ten degrees on the dial of Ahaz, Isa 38:7,8, a writing of Hezekiah's upon his recovery, in commemoration of it, Isa 38:9, in which he represents the deplorable condition he had been in, the terrible apprehensions he had of things, especially of the wrath and fury of the Almighty, and his sorrowful and mournful complaints, Isa 38:10-14, he observes his deliverance according to the word of God; expresses his faith in it; promises to retain a cheerful sense of it; owning that it was by the promises of God that he had lived as other saints did; and ascribes his preservation from the grave to the love of God to him, of which the forgiveness of his sins was an evidence, Isa 38:15-17, the end of which salvation was, that he might praise the Lord, which he determined to do, on stringed instruments, Isa 38:18-20, and the chapter is closed with observing the means of curing him of his boil; and that it was at his request that the sign of his recovery was given him, Isa 38:21,22.

Footnotes

• [a]. "este mundo " (mss. hebreos); "el lugar de cesación " (TM).