Esias 38
1 And it came to pass at that time, [that] Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house: for you shall die, and not live.
在那些日期內，希則克雅害病要死，阿摩茲的兒子依撒意亞先知前來看他，並對他說：「上主這樣說：快料理你的家務，因為你快死，不能久活了！」
2 And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,
希則克雅就轉面朝牆懇求上主說：「
3 Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in your sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.
上主！求你記憶我如何懷著忠誠齊全的心，在你面前行走；如何作了你視為正義的事。」然後希則克雅放聲大哭。
4 And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias,
上主的話傳給依撒意亞說：「
5 Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears: behold, I [will] add to your time fifteen years.
你去對希則克雅說：上主，你祖先達味的天主這樣說：我聽見了你的祈禱，看見了你的眼淚；看，我要在你的壽數上加多十五年，
6 And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.
且由亞述王手中拯救你和這座城，我必要保護這座城。
7 And this [shall be] a sign to you from the Lord, that God will do this thing;
上主必實踐他所說的話，這將是給你的記號：
8 behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees [of the dial] by which ten degrees on the house of your father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.
看，我要使那射在阿哈次的日晷上的日影倒退十度。」果然，射在日晷上的日影倒退了十度。
9 THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.
猶大王希則克雅在病中與病愈後所詠的「金詩：」
10 I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years. (Sheol h7585)
我曾想過：「正當我的中年，我就要離去；我的餘年將被交於陰府之門。」 (Sheol h7585)
11 I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.
我曾想過：「我再不能在活人的地上看見上主，我再不能在世上的居民中看見世人。
12 [My life] has failed from amongst my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down [again]: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off [the] thread.
我的居所被拆除，由我身上撤去，彷彿牧童的帳幕；你好像織工，捲起了我的生命，由織機上將我割斷。白日黑夜你總想將我結束！」
13 In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day [even] to night.
我哀號直到清晨，上主卻如獅子咬碎了我所有的骨骸。
14 As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow of my soul.
我呢喃好似燕子，我哀鳴有如斑鳩；我痛哭的眼睛向上仰視：「上主！我實在痛苦，求你扶持我！」
我還有什麼話可說﹖因為是上主給我說的，因為是他行的；帶著我內心的痛苦，我要善度我的餘年。
16 [Yes], O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.
吾主！我的心唯有仰望你！求你使我的精神甦醒，使我復原，使我生存。
17 For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me.
看，我的苦楚已變為安寧，是你保存了我的生命脫免滅亡的深淵，因為你將我所有的罪惡盡拋於你背後。
18 For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy. (Sheol h7585)
誠然，陰府不會讚頌你，死亡也不會稱揚你；下到深淵的，也不會再仰望你的忠誠。 (Sheol h7585)
19 The living shall bless you, as I also [do]: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare your righteousness,
生者，唯有生者能讚頌你，如我今日一樣；為父的當使自己的兒女認識你的忠信。
20 O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing you with the lute all the days of my life before the house of God.
上主救了我，為此我們願以終生的歲月，在上主的殿內彈奏絃琴！
21 Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and you shall be well.
依撒意亞曾吩咐說：「拿一塊無花果餅來，貼在他的瘡口上，他就會好了。」
22 And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.
希則克雅曾問說：「有什麼憑據，我將登上上主的殿﹖」
