What is the meaning of Isaiah 38:15? What can I say? The king is momentarily stunned by God’s mercy—words seem inadequate. • Job reached the same speechlessness: “I am unworthy—how can I reply to You?” (Job 40:4). • The psalmist felt it too: “What shall I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?” (Psalm 116:12). Facing the holy, saving action of God, silence is often the first, fitting response. He has spoken to me Hezekiah’s confidence rests on a direct word from the LORD through Isaiah. • God’s word never returns void (Isaiah 55:11). • David confessed, “You, Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever” (2 Samuel 7:28-29). When God speaks, His promise is as solid as His character. He Himself has done this The healing, the fifteen added years, the delivered city—none resulted from human ingenuity. • “Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases” (Psalm 115:3). • “I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last I am He” (Isaiah 41:4). Acknowledging God as sole actor keeps pride at bay and worship in focus. I will walk slowly all my years The Hebrew king resolves to live deliberately, humbly, gratefully. • Micah calls this “to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). • Paul urges, “Be very careful, then, how you walk—not as unwise but as wise” (Ephesians 5:15). A slowed pace protects the heart from forgetting the miracle and drifting back into self-reliance. Because of the anguish of my soul The memory of near-death suffering will shape every future step. • “It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes” (Psalm 119:71). • Paul testified that desperate trials taught him “not to rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:9). Pain remembered becomes a tutor toward enduring dependence. summary Isaiah 38:15 records Hezekiah’s humbled testimony: stunned silence before God’s gracious word, full credit given to God’s sovereign action, a resolve to live cautiously and gratefully, all informed by the searing memory of suffering. The verse calls readers to the same posture—speechless awe, trust in the spoken promise, acknowledgment of God’s sole authorship, deliberate obedience, and lifelong gratitude shaped by past deliverance. |
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