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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah's Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, &#8220;Thus says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember now, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Isaiah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the sign to you from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do this thing that he has promised: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">See, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.&#8221; So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.8 </span><span class="ft">Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A writing of King Hezekiah of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said: In the noontide of my days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">I must depart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">I am consigned to the gates of Sheol</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">for the rest of my years.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I said, I shall not see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">in the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">I shall look upon mortals no more</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">among the inhabitants of the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">like a shepherd's tent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">like a weaver I have rolled up my life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">he cuts me off from the loom;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">from day to night you bring me to an end;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.12 </span><span class="ft">Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I cry for help</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.13 </span><span class="ft">Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></span></span><span class="content"> until morning;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">like a lion he breaks all my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">from day to night you bring me to an end.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.13 </span><span class="ft">Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Like a swallow or a crane</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.14 </span><span class="ft">Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></span></span><span class="content"> I clamor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I moan like a dove.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">My eyes are weary with looking upward.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But what can I say? For he has spoken to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">and he himself has done it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">All my sleep has fled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.15 </span><span class="ft">Cn Compare Syr: Heb </span><span class="fq">I will walk slowly all my years</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">because of the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">O Lord, by these things people live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and in all these is the life of my spirit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.16 </span><span class="ft">Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">Oh, restore me to health and make me live!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely it was for my welfare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">that I had great bitterness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">but you have held back</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.17 </span><span class="ft">Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb </span><span class="fq">loved</span></span></span><span class="content"> my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">from the pit of destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">for you have cast all my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">behind your back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For Sheol cannot thank you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">death cannot praise you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">those who go down to the Pit cannot hope</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">for your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The living, the living, they thank you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">as I do this day;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">fathers make known to children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">and we will sing to stringed instruments</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38.20 </span><span class="ft">Heb </span><span class="fq">my stringed instruments</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">all the days of our lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">at the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now Isaiah had said, &#8220;Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah also had said, &#8220;What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah 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.” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD: “Remember now, O LORD, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.
“This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised: See, 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.

A writing of King Hezekiah of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
I said: In the noontide of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
I said, I shall not see the LORD
in the land of the living;
I shall look upon mortals no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd's tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;
I cry for help until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor,
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!
But what can I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
All my sleep has fled
because of the bitterness of my soul.

O Lord, by these things people live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
Surely it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
but you have held back my life
from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
For Sheol cannot thank you,
death cannot praise you;
those who go down to the Pit cannot hope
for your faithfulness.
The living, the living, they thank you,
as I do this day;
fathers make known to children
your faithfulness.

The LORD will save me,
and we will sing to stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
at the house of the LORD.

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.” Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”

සවන් දෙන්න Isaiah 38