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Chapter 38
1In those days Hezekiah fell dangerously ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “Thus said the LORD: Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die; you will not get well.”
2Thereupon Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.
3“Please, O LORD,” he said, “remember how I have walked before You sincerely and wholeheartedly, and have done what is pleasing to You.” And Hezekiah wept profusely.
4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:
5“Go and tell Hezekiah: Thus said the LORD, the God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. I hereby add fifteen years to your life.
6I will also rescue you and this city from the hands of the king of Assyria. I will protect this city.
7And this is the sign for you from the LORD that the LORD will do the thing that He has promised:
8I am going to make the shadow on the steps, which has descended on the dial of Ahaz because of the sun, recede ten steps.” And the sun[’s shadow] receded ten steps, the same steps as it had descended.
9A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah when he recovered from the illness he had suffered:
10I had thought:I must depart in the middle of my days;I have been consigned to the gates of SheolFor the rest of my years.
11I thought, I shall never see Yah,Yah in the land of the living,Or ever behold men againAmong those who inhabit the earth.
12My dwelling is pulled up and removed from meLike a tent of shepherds;My life is rolled up like a webAnd cut from the thrum.Only from daybreak to nightfallWas I kept whole,
13Then it was as though a lionWere breaking all my bones;I cried out until morning.(Only from daybreak to nightfallWas I kept whole.)
14I piped like a swift or a swallow,I moaned like a dove,As my eyes, all worn, looked to heaven:“My Lord, I am in straits;Be my surety!”
15What can I say? He promised me,And He it is who has wrought it.All my sleep had fledBecause of the bitterness of my soul.
16My Lord, for all that and despite itMy life-breath is revived;You have restored me to health and revived me.
17Truly, it was for my own goodThat I had such great bitterness:You saved my lifeFrom the pit of destruction,For You have cast behind Your backAll my offenses.
18For it is not Sheol that praises You,Not [the Land of] Death that extols You;Nor do they who descend into the PitHope for Your grace.
19The living, only the livingCan give thanks to YouAs I do this day;Fathers relate to childrenYour acts of grace:
20“[It has pleased] the LORD to deliver us,That is why we offer up musicAll the days of our livesAt the House of the LORD.”
21When Isaiah said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the rash, and he will recover,”
22Hezekiah asked, “What will be the sign that I shall go up to the House of the LORD?”
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).