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| 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.” | 1In 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. |
| 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, | 2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, |
| 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. | 3And 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. |
| 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: | 4Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, |
| 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. | 5Go, 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. |
| 6I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city. | 6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. |
| 7“This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised: | 7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; |
| 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. | 8Behold, 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. |
| 9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: | 9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: |
| 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. | 10I 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. |
| 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. | 11I 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. |
| 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; | 12Mine 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. |
| 13I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. | 13I 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. |
| 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! | 14Like 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. |
| 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. | 15What 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. |
| 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! | 16O 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. |
| 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. | 17Behold, 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. |
| 18For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. | 18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. |
| 19The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. | 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
| 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. | 20The 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. |
| 21Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” | 21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
| 22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall 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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