In those days
was Hezekiah
sick
unto death.
And Isaiah
the prophet
the son
of Amoz
came
unto him, and said
unto him, Thus saith
the LORD,
Set thine house
in order:
for thou shalt die,
and not live.
softened
ἐμαλακίσθη
emalakisthē
say
Then Hezekiah
turned
his face
toward the wall,
and prayed
unto the LORD,
And said,
Remember
now, O LORD,
I beseech
thee, how I have walked
before
thee in truth
and with a perfect
heart,
and have done
that which is good
in thy sight.
And Hezekiah
wept
sore.
Then came the word
of the LORD
to Isaiah,
saying,
Go,
and say
to Hezekiah,
Thus saith
the LORD,
the God
of David
thy father,
I have heard
thy prayer,
I have seen
thy tears:
behold, I will add
unto thy days
fifteen
years.
say
And I will deliver
thee and this city
out of the hand
of the king
of Assyria:
and I will defend
this city.
And this shall be a sign
unto thee from the LORD,
that the LORD
will do
this thing
that he hath spoken;
Behold, I will bring again
the shadow
of the degrees,
which is gone down
in the sun
dial
of Ahaz,
ten
degrees
backward.
So the sun
returned
ten
degrees,
by which degrees
it was gone down.
The writing
of Hezekiah
king
of Judah,
when he had been sick,
and was recovered
of his sickness:
I said
in the cutting off
of my days,
I shall go
to the gates
of the grave:
I am deprived
of the residue
of my years.
I said,
I shall not see
the LORD,
even the LORD,
in the land
of the living:
I shall behold
man
no more with the inhabitants
of the world.
Mine age
is departed,
and is removed
from me as a shepherd's
tent:
I have cut off
like a weaver
my life:
he will cut me off
with pining sickness:
from day
even to night
wilt thou make an end
of me.
anything set upright
ἱστὸς
histos
day-labourer
ἐρίθου
erithou
cut out
ἐκτεμεῖν
ektemein
I reckoned
till morning,
that, as a lion,
so will he break
all my bones:
from day
even to night
wilt thou make an end
of me.
Like a crane
or a swallow,
so did I chatter:
I did mourn
as a dove:
mine eyes
fail
with looking upward:
O LORD,
I am oppressed;
undertake
for me.
swallow
χελιδών
chelidōn
What shall I say?
he hath both spoken
unto me, and himself hath done
it: I shall go softly
all my years
in the bitterness
of my soul.
O Lord,
by these things men live,
and in all these things is the life
of my spirit:
so wilt thou recover
me, and make me to live.
Behold, for peace
I had great bitterness:
but thou hast in love
to my soul
delivered it from the pit
of corruption:
for thou hast cast
all my sins
behind
thy back.
For the grave
cannot praise
thee, death
can not celebrate
thee: they that go down
into the pit
cannot hope
for thy truth.
The living,
the living,
he shall praise
thee, as I do this day:
the father
to the children
shall make known
thy truth.
The LORD
was ready to save
me: therefore we will sing my songs
to the stringed instruments
all the days
of our life
in the house
of the LORD.
For Isaiah
had said,
Let them take
a lump
of figs,
and lay it for a plaister
upon the boil,
and he shall recover.
Hezekiah
also had said,
What is the sign
that I shall go up
to the house
of the LORD?
