| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Berean Study Bible |
| 1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. 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 and not live.'" | 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.’ ” |
| 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, |
| 3and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. | 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. |
| 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, | 4And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, |
| 5"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. | 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. |
| 6"I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."' | 6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. 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 spoken: | 7This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: |
| 8"Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps." So the sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. | 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. |
| 9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: | 9This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: |
| 10I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years." | 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.” |
| 11I said, "I will not see the LORD, The LORD in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world. | 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. |
| 12"Like a shepherd's tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. | 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. |
| 13"I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion-- so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me. | 13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me. |
| 14"Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. | 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.” |
| 15"What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. | 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. |
| 16"O Lord, by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live! | 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. |
| 17"Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. | 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. |
| 18"For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. | 18For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. |
| 19"It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness. | 19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness. |
| 20"The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD." | 20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives 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." | 21Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.” |
| 22Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?" | 22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?” |
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