Isaiah 38
1 About this time Hezekiah fell very sick and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.”
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 When Hezekiah heard this, he went to pray privately to the Lord, saying
希西家就转脸朝墙，祷告耶和华说：
3 “Please remember Lord how I have followed you faithfully with all my heart. I have done what is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah cried and cried.
“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 Then the Lord sent a message to Isaiah, saying,
耶和华的话临到以赛亚说：
5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, This is what the Lord, the God of your forefather David, says: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life.
“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 I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria. 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 This is the sign from the Lord to you that the Lord will do what he promised:
“我—耶和华必成就我所说的。我先给你一个兆头，
8 Look, I will make the shadow made by the sun go back the ten steps that it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. So the sun went back the ten steps that it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.”
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 This is what Hezekiah, king of Judah, wrote after he recovered from his sickness:
犹大王希西家患病已经痊愈，就作诗说：
10 I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on the rest 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 will never again see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living. I won't see anyone else again, none of the inhabitants of this world.
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 Like a shepherd's tent, the place where I live has been pulled up and taken away from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up the cloth of my life and cut it from the loom. Day and night you bring me to an end.
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 I lie there patiently until the morning, but I feel like there's a lion breaking every bone in my body. Day and night you bring me to an end.
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 I scream like a swift or a songbird, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow dim as I look heavenwards. I'm being attacked, Lord, please come and support me!
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。
15 Yet what can I say? He told me what was going to happen, and he himself did it. I will walk quietly for the rest of my life because of the painful experience I went through.
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 Lord, we live by what you say and do, and I find life in all of this. You have given me back my health and allowed me to 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 It was definitely for my own good I went through this bitter experience. You in your love saved me from the pit of destruction and you have forgiven all my sins.
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 Those in the grave cannot praise you, the dead cannot praise you. Those who go down into the pit can no longer hope in your faithfulness. (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 It's only the living who can praise you as I'm doing today. Parents explain to their children how you can be trusted.
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 The Lord saved me! We will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the Lord's Temple.”
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 Isaiah had said, “Prepare a dressing of figs and spread it on the skin sores so he may recover.”
以赛亚说：“当取一块无花果饼来，贴在疮上，王必痊愈。”
22 Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign to confirm that I will go to the Lord's Temple?”
希西家问说：“我能上耶和华的殿，有什么兆头呢？”
