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Isaiah 38:1-22 — Hezekiah's Illness

Isa.38.1-22

¹In those days Hezekiah became sick to the point of death. 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 are dying and will not live.' ²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, ³and said, 'Please, O LORD, remember now 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. ⁴Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, ⁵Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days. ⁶And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. ⁷And this will be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken: ⁸Behold, I will make the shadow on the steps , which has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz with the sun, turn back ten steps.' So the sun turned back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. ⁹A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and recovered from his sickness: ¹⁰I said, 'In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.' ¹¹I said, 'I will not see Yah , Yah in the land of the living; I will look on mankind no more among the inhabitants of the world.' 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; from day until night you make an end of me. ¹³I calmed myself until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day until night you make an end of me. ¹⁴Like a swallow or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security! ¹⁵What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶O Lord, by these things men live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live! ¹⁷Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness; but you have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸For Sheol does not thank you, death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. ¹⁹The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; a father makes known to his children your faithfulness. ²⁰The LORD will save me, and we will play my 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 rub it on the boil, so that he may recover.' ²²And Hezekiah had asked, 'What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?'

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4/11/2026

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