Isaiah 38
38
“Put Your House In Order”
1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So Isaiah the prophet son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says Adonai: Put your house in order. For you are dying, and will not live.”
2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Adonai.
3He said: “Please, Adonai, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4Then it came to pass, the word of Adonai came to Isaiah saying:
5“Go, and say to Hezekiah, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add 15 years to your life.
6I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.’
7“Now this will be the sign to you from Adonai, that Adonai will do this word He has spoken:
8Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairs, which went down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, to turn back ten steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
9A writing of King Hezekiah of Judah, after his illness, when he recovered from his illness:
10I said: “In the prime of my life, I am to enter the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the rest of my years.”
11I said: “I will not see Adonai, Adonai, in the land of the living. I will look on humanity no longer among the inhabitants of the world.
12Like a shepherd’s tent, my dwelling is pulled up and carried away from me. Like a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom. From day until night You make my end.
13I stilled my soul till morning. Like a lion, He will break all my bones. From day till night You make my end.
14Like a swallow or a crane, I whisper, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary, looking upward. Adonai, I am oppressed, be my security!
15What should I say? For He has spoken to me— He Himself has done it! I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
16Adonai, by such things men live, and my spirit has life in them too. Restore me to health, and let me live!
17Behold, it was for my own shalom that I had great bitterness. You have loved my soul out of the Pit of destruction! For You have flung all my sins behind Your back.
18For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19The living, the living—they praise You— as I do today. A father makes Your faithfulness known to his children.
20Adonai will save me. So we will play my songs on stringed instruments all the days of our life in the House of Adonai.”
21Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, and he will live.”
22Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the House of Adonai?”
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Isaiah 38
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Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery
1 # For ver. 1-8, see 2 Kgs. 20:1-6, 9-11 In those days Hezekiah became #2 Chr. 32:24 sick and was at the point of death. And #See ch. 1:1Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”#38:1 Or live; also verses 9, 21 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how #2 Kgs. 18:5, 6I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add #2 Kgs. 18:2, 13fifteen years to your life.#38:5 Hebrew to your days 6#ch. 37:35I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.
7“This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised: 8#[2 Kgs. 20:9, 10]Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.#38:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
10I said, #[Ps. 102:24]In the middle#38:10 Or In the quiet of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
11I said, I shall not see the Lord,
the Lord #Ps. 27:13; [Ps. 88:5]in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
12My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
# [2 Cor. 5:1] like a shepherd’s tent;
#
Job 7:6 like a weaver #[Heb. 1:12] I have rolled up my life;
#
Job 6:9 he cuts me off from the loom;
# [Job 4:20; Ps. 73:14] from day to night you bring me to an end;
13 # [Ps. 30:5] I calmed myself#38:13 Or (with Targum) I cried for help until morning;
like a lion #[Ps. 38:3]he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.
14Like #[Jer. 8:7] a swallow or a crane I chirp;
# ch. 59:11 I moan like a dove.
#
Ps. 69:3 My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; #Ps. 119:122; [Ps. 86:17; Heb. 7:22]be my pledge of safety!
15What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
#
1 Kgs. 21:27
I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.
16 #
Deut. 8:3
O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
17 #
Ps. 119:67, 75 Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
# [Ps. 103:12; Mic. 7:19] but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
# [Ps. 103:12; Mic. 7:19] for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
18 #
Ps. 88:10-12; 115:17; [Eccles. 9:10] For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
#
Deut. 4:9; 6:7; Ps. 78:3, 4 the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.
20The Lord will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
#
2 Kgs. 20:5
at the house of the Lord.
21 #
2 Kgs. 20:7, 8 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” 22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”
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