Isaiah 38
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
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 diebus illis ægrotavit Ezechias usque ad mortem; et introivit ad eum Isaias, filius Amos, propheta, et dixit ei: Hæc dicit Dominus: Dispone domui tuæ, quia morieris tu, et non vives.
2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
2Et convertit Ezechias faciem suam ad parietem, et oravit ad Dominum,
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.
3et dixit: Obsecro, Domine, memento, quæso, quomodo ambulaverim coram te in veritate et in corde perfecto, et quod bonum est in oculis tuis fecerim. Et flevit Ezechias fletu magno.
4And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
4Et factum est verbum Domini ad Isaiam, dicens:
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.
5Vade, et dic Ezechiæ: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus David patris tui: Audivi orationem tuam, et vidi lacrimas tuas; ecce ego adjiciam super dies tuos quindecim annos,
6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
6et de manu regis Assyriorum eruam te, et civitatem istam, et protegam eam.
7This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
7Hoc autem tibi erit signum a Domino, quia faciet Dominus verbum hoc quod locutus est:
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.
8ecce ego reverti faciam umbram linearum per quas descenderat in horologio Achaz in sole, retrorsum decem lineis. Et reversus est sol decem lineis per gradus quos descenderat.
9This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
9Scriptura Ezechiæ, regis Juda, cum ægrotasset et convaluisset de infirmitate sua.
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.”
10[Ego dixi in dimidio dierum meorum: Vadam ad portas inferi; quæsivi residuum annorum meorum.
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.
11Dixi: Non videbo Dominum Deum in terra viventium; non aspiciam hominem ultra, et habitatorem quietis.
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.
12Generatio mea ablata est, et convoluta est a me, quasi tabernaculum pastorum. Præcisa est velut a texente vita mea; dum adhuc ordirer, succidit me: de mane usque ad vesperam finies 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.
13Sperabam usque ad mane; quasi leo, sic contrivit omnia ossa mea: de mane usque ad vesperam finies 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.”
14Sicut pullus hirundinis, sic clamabo; meditabor ut columba. Attenuati sunt oculi mei, suspicientes in excelsum. Domine, vim patior: responde pro 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.
15Quid dicam, aut quid respondebit mihi, cum ipse fecerit? Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritudine animæ meæ.
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.
16Domine, si sic vivitur, et in talibus vita spiritus mei, corripies me, et vivificabis me.
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.
17Ecce in pace amaritudo mea amarissima. Tu autem eruisti animam meam ut non periret; projecisti post tergum tuum omnia peccata mea.
18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
18Quia non infernus confitebitur tibi, neque mors laudabit te: non exspectabunt qui descendunt in lacum veritatem tuam.
19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
19Vivens, vivens ipse confitebitur tibi, sicut et ego hodie; pater filiis notam faciet veritatem tuam.
20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
20Domine, salvum me fac ! et psalmos nostros cantabimus cunctis diebus vitæ nostræ in domo Domini.]
21Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
21Et jussit Isaias ut tollerent massam de ficis, et cataplasmarent super vulnus, et sanaretur.
22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
22Et dixit Ezechias: Quod erit signum quia ascendam in domum Domini?
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