Isaiah 38
1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
In diebus illis aegrotavit Ezechias usque ad mortem: et introivit ad eum Isaias filius Amos propheta, et dixit ei: Haec dicit Dominus: Dispone domui tuae, quia morieris tu, et non vives.
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
Et convertit Ezechias faciem suam ad parietem, et oravit ad Dominum,
3 saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
et dixit: Obsecro Domine, memento quaeso quomodo ambulaverim coram te in veritate, et in corde perfecto, et quod bonum est in oculis tuis fecerim. Et flevit Ezechias fletu magno.
4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
Et factum est verbum Domini ad Isaiam, dicens:
5 “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Vade, et dic Ezechiae: Haec dicit Dominus Deus David patris tui: Audivi orationem tuam, et vidi lacrymas tuas: ecce ego adiiciam super dies tuos quindecim annos:
6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
et de manu regis Assyriorum eruam te, et civitatem istam, et protegam eam.
7 This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
Hoc autem tibi erit signum a Domino, quia faciet Dominus verbum hoc, quod locutus est:
8 I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
Ecce ego reverti faciam umbram linearum, per quas descenderat in horologio Achaz in sole, retrorsum decem lineis. Et reversus est sol decem lineis per gradus, quos descenderat.
9 This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
Scriptura Ezechiae regis Iuda cum aegrotasset, et convaluisset de infirmitate sua.
10 I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.” (Sheol h7585)
Ego dixi: In dimidio dierum meorum vadam ad portas inferi. Quaesivi residuum annorum meorum. (Sheol h7585)
11 I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
dixi: Non videbo Dominum Deum in terra viventium. Non aspiciam hominem ultra, et habitatorem quietis.
12 My dwelling has been picked 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.
Generatio mea ablata est; et convoluta est a me, quasi tabernaculum pastorum: Praecisa est velut a texente, vita mea: dum adhuc ordirer, succidit me: de mane usque ad vesperam finies me.
13 I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
Sperabam usque ad mane, quasi leo sic contrivit omnia ossa mea: De mane usque ad vesperam finies me:
14 I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
sicut pullus hirundinis sic clamabo, meditabor ut columba: Attenuati sunt oculi mei, suspicientes in excelsum: Domine vim patior, responde pro me.
15 What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
Quid dicam, aut quid respondebit mihi, cum ipse fecerit? Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritudine animae meae.
16 O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
Domine si sic vivitur, et in talibus vita spiritus mei, corripies me, et vivificabis me.
17 Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Ecce in pace amaritudo mea amarissima: Tu autem eruisti animam meam ut non periret, proiecisti post tergum tuum omnia peccata mea.
18 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. (Sheol h7585)
Quia non infernus confitebitur tibi, neque mors laudabit te: non expectabunt qui descendunt in lacum, veritatem tuam. (Sheol h7585)
19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Vivens vivens ipse confitebitur tibi, sicut et ego hodie: pater filiis notam faciet veritatem tuam.
20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
Domine salvum me fac, et psalmos nostros cantabimus cunctis diebus vitae nostrae in domo Domini.
21 Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
Et iussit Isaias ut tollerent massam de ficis, et cataplasmarent super vulnus, et sanaretur.
22 And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
Et dixit Ezechias: Quod erit signum quia ascendam in domum Domini?
