Isaiah 38

1 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) be weak: ill Hezekiah to/for to die and to come (in): come to(wards) him Isaiah son: child Amoz [the] prophet and to say to(wards) him thus to say LORD to command to/for house: household your for to die you(m. s.) and not to 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 to turn: turn Hezekiah face his to(wards) [the] wall and to pray to(wards) LORD

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

3 and to say Please! LORD to remember please [obj] which to go: walk to/for face: before your in/on/with truth: faithful and in/on/with heart complete and [the] pleasant in/on/with eye: seeing your to make: do and to weep Hezekiah weeping great: large

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 to be word LORD to(wards) Isaiah to/for to say

And a word of YHWH is to Isaiah, saying,

5 to go: went and to say to(wards) Hezekiah thus to say LORD God David father your to hear: hear [obj] prayer your to see: see [obj] tears your look! I to add upon day your five ten year

“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 palm king Assyria to rescue you and [obj] [the] city [the] this and to defend upon [the] city [the] 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 to/for you [the] sign: miraculous from with LORD which to make: do LORD [obj] [the] word: thing [the] this which to speak: promise

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

8 look! I to return: return [obj] shadow [the] step which to go down in/on/with step Ahaz in/on/with sun backwards ten step and to return: return [the] sun ten step in/on/with step which to go 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 writing to/for Hezekiah king Judah in/on/with be weak: ill he and to live from sickness his

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

10 I to say in/on/with quiet day my to go: went in/on/with gate hell: Sheol to reckon: put remainder year 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 to say not to see: see LORD LORD in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive not to look man still with to dwell world

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 generation my to set out and to reveal: remove from me like/as tent to pasture my to roll like/as to weave life my from hair to cut off me from day till night to complete 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 to set till morning like/as lion so to break all bone my from day till night to complete 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/as swallow crane so to whisper to mutter like/as dove to languish eye my to/for height Lord oppression to/for me to pledge 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? to speak: speak and to say to/for me and he/she/it to make: do to go slowly all year my upon bitter soul 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 Lord upon them to live and to/for all in/on/with them life spirit my and be healthy me and to live 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 behold to/for peace: well-being to provoke to/for me bitter and you(m. s.) to desire soul: life my from Pit: hell without for to throw after back your all sin my (questioned)

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 hell: Sheol to give thanks you death to boast: praise you not to await to go down pit to(wards) truth: faithful 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 alive alive he/she/it to give thanks you like me [the] day father to/for son: child to know to(wards) truth: faithful your

The living, the living, he confesses You,

20 LORD to/for to save me and music my to play all day life our upon house: temple LORD

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 to say Isaiah to lift: raise fig cake fig and to rub upon [the] boil and to live

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

22 and to say Hezekiah what? sign: miraculous for to ascend: rise house: temple LORD

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