| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 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 Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the 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.” |
| 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, | 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to 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, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
| 4And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, | 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: |
| 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. | 5“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. |
| 6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city. | 6I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city. |
| 7This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: | 7“This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised: |
| 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 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. |
| 9This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: | 9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from 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 middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest 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, the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world. |
| 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 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; |
| 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 calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. |
| 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.” | 14Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety! |
| 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? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of 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, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me 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, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. |
| 18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. | 18For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. |
| 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 thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. |
| 20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD. | 20The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at 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 Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” |
| 22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?” | 22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?” |
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