Isaiah 38
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
1In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.
2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
2And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
3saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
3And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.
4And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
4And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:
5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
5Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years:
6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.
7This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
7And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:
8I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
8Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.
9This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
9The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.
11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
11I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.
12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd’s tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.
14I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
14I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.
15What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
15What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
16O Lord, if man’s life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.
17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
17Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou best delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
18For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.
19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
19The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.
20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
20O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
21Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
21Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as it plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.
22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
22And Ezechias bed said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
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