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Isaiah 38

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Around this time Hizkiyahu became ill to the point of death. Yesha'yahu the prophet, the son of Amotz, came and said to him, "Here is what ADONAI says: 'Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not live.'"

2 Hizkiyahu turned his face toward the wall and prayed to ADONAI:

3 "I plead with you, ADONAI, remember now how I have lived before you truly and wholeheartedly, and how I have done what you see as good." And he cried bitter tears.

4 Then the word of ADONAI came to Yesha'yahu:

5 "Go and tell Hizkiyahu that this is what ADONAI, the God of David your ancestor, says: 'I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; therefore I will add fifteen years to your life.

6 Also I will rescue you and this city from the power of the king of Ashur; I will defend this city.

7 The sign for you from ADONAI that ADONAI will do what he said is

8 that I will cause the shadow of the sundial, which has started going down on the sundial of Achaz, to go backward ten intervals.'" So the sun went back ten intervals of the distance it had already gone down.

9 After Hizkiyahu king of Y'hudah had been ill and had recovered, he wrote the following:

10 "I once said: 'In the prime of life I am going off to the gates of Sh'ol. I am being deprived of living out the full span of my life.'

11 "I said, 'I will never again see Yah, Yah in the land of the living; I will look on human beings no more or be with those who live in this world.

12 My home is uprooted and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. Like a weaver, I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom. Between day and night you could finish me off.

13 I try to be strong like a lion till morning, but still my illness breaks all my bones - between day and night you could finish me off.

14 I make little chattering sounds like a swallow, I moan aloud like a dove, My eyes are weary with looking upward. Adonai, I am overwhelmed; guarantee my life!'

15 "What is there that I can say? He has spoken to me and acted! I will go humbly all my years, remembering how bitter I was.

16 Adonai, by these things people live; in all these is the life of my spirit. You're restoring my health and giving me life

17 though instead of peace, I felt very bitter. You desired my life and preserved it from the nothingness pit; for you threw all my sins behind your back.

18 "Sh'ol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you; those descending to the pit cannot hope for your truth.

19 The living, the living - they can thank you, as I do today; fathers will make their children know about your faithfulness.

20 ADONAI is ready to save me; hence we will make our stringed instruments sound all the days of our life in the house of ADONAI."

21 Then Yesha'yahu said, "Have them take a fig-plaster and apply it to the inflammation, and he will recover."

22 Hizkiyahu asked, "What sign will there be that I will be able to go up to the house of ADONAI?"

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.

2 And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying,

3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.

6 And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.

7 And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:

8 See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.

9 The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.

10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.

17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

20 O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.

21 And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.

22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?