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Hezekiah's Illness, Prayer, and Recovery

Isaiah 38:1-22

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Chapter 38
1 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the point of death. And Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Command your house, for you are dying and you will not live." 2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD. 3 He said, "Please, LORD, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a whole heart, and how I have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying: 5 Go and say to Hezekiah, "The LORD God of David your father says this: I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days." 6 And I will deliver you from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will shield this city. 7 And this is the sign for you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this word that he spoke. 8 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the steps, which the sun has gone down on the steps of Ahaz, return by ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the steps down which it had gone. 9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his sickness, when he lived through his sicknesses. 10 I said, "In the midst of my days I will go to the gates of Sheol; I counted the remainder of my years." 11 I said, "No—I will not see Yah in the land of the living; no—I will not look upon Adam again with the dwellers of cessation." 12 My generation has journeyed and is gone from me like a tent; my shepherding I have cut short like a weaver; my life from the loom cuts me off; from day until night you complete me. 13 I set it until morning. Like a lion, so he shattered all my bones. From day until night you completed me. 14 Like a swallow, so I chirp. I moan like a dove. My eyes have languished to the height, Lord. She has oppressed me; he has pledged me. 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk cautiously all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 16 Lord, they shall live upon them, and to all in them is the life of my spirit; and you made me whole, and you kept me alive. 17 Behold, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you loved my nephesh from the pit of destruction. Indeed, you have cast all my sins behind your back. 18 For Sheol will not thank you; Death will not praise you. Those who go down to the Pit will not look up to your truth. 19 The living, the living—he will praise you, as I do today; the father to the sons will make known your faithfulness. 20 The LORD to save me, and we will play my music all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 21 And Isaiah said, "Let them take a lump of figs and spread it on the boil, and he will live." 22 And Hezekiah said, "What sign is there that I will go up to the house of the LORD?"