Isaiah 38
1 In those days has Hezekiah been sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, comes to him and says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Give a charge to your house, for you [are] dying, and do 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 Hezekiah turns around his face to the wall, and prays to YHWH,
希西家就转脸朝墙，祷告耶和华说：
3 and says, “Ah, now, O YHWH, please remember how I have habitually walked before You in truth, and with a perfect heart, and I have done that which [is] good in your eyes”; and Hezekiah weeps [with] a great weeping.
“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 a word of YHWH is to Isaiah, saying,
耶和华的话临到以赛亚说：
5 “Go, and you have said to Hezekiah, Thus said YHWH, God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, behold, I am adding fifteen years to your days,
“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 out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver you and this city, and have covered over 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 [is] to you the sign from YHWH, that YHWH does this thing that He has spoken.
“我—耶和华必成就我所说的。我先给你一个兆头，
8 Behold, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it has gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees”; and the sun turns back ten degrees in the degrees that it 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 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick when he revives from his sickness:
犹大王希西家患病已经痊愈，就作诗说：
10 “I said in the cutting off of my days, I go to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant 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 do not see YAH—YAH! In the land of the living, I do not behold man anymore, With the inhabitants of the 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 My sojourning has departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd’s tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cuts me off, From day to night You end me.
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 have set [Him] as a lion until morning, So He breaks all my bones, From day to night You end me.
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 crane—a swallow—so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, My eyes have been drawn up on high, O YHWH, oppression [is] on me, be my guarantor.
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 What do I say? Seeing He spoke to me, And He Himself has worked, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
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, [men] live by these, And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, And You save me, make me to also 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 Behold, He changed bitterness to peace for me, And You have delighted in my soul without corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
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 Sheol does not confess You, Death does not praise You, Those going down to the pit do not hope for Your truth. (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, the living, he confesses You,
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 Like myself today; A father makes known to [his] sons of Your faithfulness, O YHWH—to save me: And we sing my songs all [the] days of our lives In the house of YHWH.”
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 And Isaiah says, “Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he lives.”
以赛亚说：“当取一块无花果饼来，贴在疮上，王必痊愈。”
22 And Hezekiah says, “What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of YHWH?”
希西家问说：“我能上耶和华的殿，有什么兆头呢？”
