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.
那时希西家病得要死，亚摩斯的儿子先知以赛亚去见他，对他说：“耶和华如此说：你当留遗命与你的家，因为你必死不能活了。”
2 And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,
希西家就转脸朝墙，祷告耶和华说：
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.
“耶和华啊，求你记念我在你面前怎样存完全的心，按诚实行事，又做你眼中所看为善的。”希西家就痛哭了。
4 And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias,
耶和华的话临到以赛亚说：
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.
“你去告诉希西家说，耶和华—你祖大卫的 神如此说：我听见了你的祷告，看见了你的眼泪。我必加增你十五年的寿数；
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.
并且我要救你和这城脱离亚述王的手，也要保护这城。
7 And this [shall be] a sign to you from the Lord, that God will do this thing;
“我—耶和华必成就我所说的。我先给你一个兆头，
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.
就是叫亚哈斯的日晷，向前进的日影往后退十度。”于是，前进的日影果然在日晷上往后退了十度。
9 THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.
犹大王希西家患病已经痊愈，就作诗说：
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)
我说：正在我中年之日 必进入阴间的门； 我余剩的年岁不得享受。 (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.
我说：我必不得见耶和华， 就是在活人之地不见耶和华； 我与世上的居民不再见面。
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.
我的住处被迁去离开我， 好像牧人的帐棚一样； 我将性命卷起， 像织布的卷布一样。 耶和华必将我从机头剪断， 从早到晚，他要使我完结。
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.
我使自己安静直到天亮； 他像狮子折断我一切的骨头， 从早到晚，他要使我完结。
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.
我像燕子呢喃， 像白鹤鸣叫， 又像鸽子哀鸣； 我因仰观，眼睛困倦。 耶和华啊，我受欺压， 求你为我作保。
我可说什么呢？ 他应许我的，也给我成就了。 我因心里的苦楚， 在一生的年日必悄悄而行。
16 [Yes], O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.
主啊，人得存活乃在乎此。 我灵存活也全在此。 所以求你使我痊愈，仍然存活。
17 For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me.
看哪，我受大苦，本为使我得平安； 你因爱我的灵魂便救我脱离败坏的坑， 因为你将我一切的罪扔在你的背后。
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)
原来，阴间不能称谢你， 死亡不能颂扬你； 下坑的人不能盼望你的诚实。 (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,
只有活人，活人必称谢你， 像我今日称谢你一样。 为父的，必使儿女知道你的诚实。
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.
耶和华肯救我， 所以，我们要一生一世 在耶和华殿中 用丝弦的乐器唱我的诗歌。
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.
以赛亚说：“当取一块无花果饼来，贴在疮上，王必痊愈。”
22 And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.
希西家问说：“我能上耶和华的殿，有什么兆头呢？”
