以賽亞書 38
1 那時希西家病得要死，亞摩斯的兒子先知以賽亞去見他，對他說：「耶和華如此說：你當留遺命與你的家，因為你必死不能活了。」
In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 希西家就轉臉朝牆，禱告耶和華說：
And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Jehovah,
3 「耶和華啊，求你記念我在你面前怎樣存完全的心，按誠實行事，又做你眼中所看為善的。」希西家就痛哭了。
and said, Ah, Jehovah, remember, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept much.
4 耶和華的話臨到以賽亞說：
And the word of Jehovah came to Isaiah, saying,
5 「你去告訴希西家說，耶和華－你祖大衛的上帝如此說：我聽見了你的禱告，看見了你的眼淚。我必加增你十五年的壽數；
Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
6 並且我要救你和這城脫離亞述王的手，也要保護這城。
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
7 「我－耶和華必成就我所說的。我先給你一個兆頭，
And this [shall be] the sign to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
8 就是叫亞哈斯的日晷，向前進的日影往後退十度。」於是，前進的日影果然在日晷上往後退了十度。
behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees which hath gone down with the sun on the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned on the dial ten degrees, by which it had gone down.
9 猶大王希西家患病已經痊癒，就作詩說：
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years. (Sheol h7585)
11 我說：我必不得見耶和華， 就是在活人之地不見耶和華； 我與世上的居民不再見面。
I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
12 我的住處被遷去離開我， 好像牧人的帳棚一樣； 我將性命捲起， 像織布的捲布一樣。 耶和華必將我從機頭剪斷， 從早到晚，他要使我完結。
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: — from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
13 我使自己安靜直到天亮； 他像獅子折斷我一切的骨頭， 從早到晚，他要使我完結。
I kept still until the morning; ...as a lion, so doth he break all my bones. From day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
14 我像燕子呢喃， 像白鶴鳴叫， 又像鴿子哀鳴； 我因仰觀，眼睛困倦。 耶和華啊，我受欺壓， 求你為我作保。
Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward: Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15 我可說甚麼呢？ 他應許我的，也給我成就了。 我因心裏的苦楚， 在一生的年日必悄悄而行。
What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16 主啊，人得存活乃在乎此。 我靈存活也全在此。 所以求你使我痊癒，仍然存活。
Lord, by these things [men] live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.
17 看哪，我受大苦，本為使我得平安； 你因愛我的靈魂便救我脫離敗壞的坑， 因為你將我一切的罪扔在你的背後。
Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth. (Sheol h7585)
19 只有活人，活人必稱謝你， 像我今日稱謝你一樣。 為父的，必使兒女知道你的誠實。
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20 耶和華肯救我， 所以，我們要一生一世 在耶和華殿中 用絲弦的樂器唱我的詩歌。
Jehovah was [purposed] to save me. — And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.
21 以賽亞說：「當取一塊無花果餅來，貼在瘡上，王必痊癒。」
Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22 希西家問說：「我能上耶和華的殿，有甚麼兆頭呢？」
And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah?
