| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Holman Christian Standard 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 terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your affairs 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. | 3He said, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what pleases You." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
| 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, | 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: " |
| 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. | 5Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 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 power 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 is the 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 am going to make the sun's shadow that goes down on Ahaz's stairway go back by 10 steps." So the sun's shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended. |
| 9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: | 9A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness: |
| 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 to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest 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 see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longer with the inhabitants of what is passing away. |
| 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 is plucked 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. You make an end of me from day until night. |
| 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 thought until the morning: He will break all my bones like a lion; You make an end of me day and night. |
| 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 a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; support me. |
| 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 it. I walk along slowly all my years because of the bitterness 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! | 16Lord, because of these promises people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well; You have restored me to health and 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. | 17Indeed, it was for my own welfare that I had such great bitterness; but Your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for You have thrown 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 go down 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; a father will make Your faithfulness known to children. |
| 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 stringed instruments all the days of our lives at 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, "Let them take a lump of pressed figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may 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 is the sign that I will go up to the LORD's temple?" |
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