Isaiah 38

1 In the days those he became sick Hezekiah to die and he went to him Isaiah [the] son of Amoz the prophet and he said to him thus he says Yahweh command to household your for [are] about to die you and not you will live.

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.”

2 And he turned Hezekiah face his to the wall and he prayed to Yahweh.

And Hezekiah turns around his face to the wall, and prays to YHWH,

3 And he said I beg you O Yahweh remember please this: I have walked about before you in faithfulness and with a heart complete and the good in view your I have done and he wept Hezekiah weeping great.

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.

4 And it came [the] word of Yahweh to Isaiah saying.

And a word of YHWH is to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go and you will say to Hezekiah thus he says Yahweh [the] God of David ancestor your I have heard prayer your I have seen tear[s] your here I he will add to days your fif-teen year[s].

“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,

6 And from [the] hand of [the] king of Assyria I will deliver you and the city this and I will defend the city this.

and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver you and this city, and have covered over this city.

7 And this for you [will be] the sign from with Yahweh that he will do Yahweh the thing this which he has spoken.

And this [is] to you the sign from YHWH, that YHWH does this thing that He has spoken.

8 Here I [am] about to turn back [the] shadow of the steps which it had gone down on [the] steps of Ahaz with the sun backwards ten steps and it went back the sun ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.

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.

9 A writing of Hezekiah [the] king of Judah when was sick he and he lived from sickness his.

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick when he revives from his sickness:

10 I I said in [the] half of days my let me go in [the] gates of Sheol I have been caused to miss [the] remainder of years my. (Sheol h7585)

“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)

11 I said not I will see Yahweh Yahweh in [the] land of the living not I will look at humankind again with [the] inhabitants of cessation.

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.

12 Dwelling-place my it has been pulled up and it has been removed from me like [the] tent of shepherd my I have rolled up like weaver life my from [the] loom he cuts off me from day unto night you make an end of me.

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.

13 I have lain down until morning like lion so he breaks all bones my from day unto night you make an end of me.

I have set [Him] as a lion until morning, So He breaks all my bones, From day to night You end me.

14 Like a swallow a crane so I chirp I moan like dove they are cast down eyes my to the height[s] O Lord oppression [belongs] to me stand surety for me.

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.

15 What? will I say and he has spoken to me and he he has acted I will walk deliberately all years my on [the] bitterness of self my.

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.

16 O Lord on them people live and to all in them [the] life of spirit my and may you restore to health me and preserve alive me.

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,

17 Here! for welfare it was bitter to me bitterly and you you loved life my from [the] pit of destruction for you threw away behind back your all sins my.

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.

18 For not Sheol it gives thanks to you death it praises you not they hope [those who] go down of [the] pit to faithfulness your. (Sheol h7585)

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)

19 [the] living [the] living He he gives thanks to you as I this day a father to children he makes known concerning faithfulness your.

The living, the living, he confesses You,

20 Yahweh [is] to save me and songs my we will play all [the] days of lives our at [the] house of Yahweh.

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.”

21 And he said Isaiah let them take a cake of figs and let them rub [it] on the boil so he may live.

And Isaiah says, “Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he lives.”

22 And he said Hezekiah what? [will be the] sign that I will go up [the] house of Yahweh.

And Hezekiah says, “What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of YHWH?”