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| 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. | 1During that time, Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. Then Amoz's son Isaiah the prophet came to him and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your house in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.'" |
| 2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, | 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD. |
| 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. | 3"Please, LORD," he said, "Remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a true heart, and I have done what pleases you." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
| 4Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, | 4Then this message from the LORD came to Isaiah: |
| 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. | 5"Go tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has to say: "I've heard your prayer and I've seen your tears; so I will add fifteen years to your life. |
| 6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. | 6I'll save you and this city from the king of Assyria, and I'll defend this city, for my own sake and for my servant David's sake. |
| 7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; | 7This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will carry out this thing he has promised: |
| 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. | 8Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards."'" Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down. |
| 9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: | 9 A composition by King Hezekiah of Judah, following his illness and recovery: |
| 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. | 10I said, "Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!" |
| 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. | 11I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave. |
| 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. | 12My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom— day and night you make an end of me. |
| 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. | 13I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones— day and night you make an end of me. |
| 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. | 14Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me! |
| 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. | 15What can I say, so I tell myself, since he has done this to me? I will walk slowly all my years because of my soul's anguish. |
| 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. | 16"My Lord is against them, yet they live, and among all of them who live is his spirit. Now you have restored me to health, so let me live! |
| 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. | 17Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back. |
| 18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. | 18For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for 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. | 19The living—yes the living—they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness. |
| 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. | 20The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on strings all the days of our lives in the LORD's Temple. |
| 21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. | 21Now Isaiah had said, "Let them prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover." |
| 22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? | 22Hezekiah also had asked, "What will be the sign for me to go up to the LORD's Temple?" |
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