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 was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.'"

2 and to turn: turn Hezekiah face his to(wards) [the] wall and to pray to(wards) LORD

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

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 said, "Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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

Then the word of the LORD came 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 tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life.

6 and from palm king Assyria to rescue you and [obj] [the] city [the] this and to defend upon [the] city [the] this

I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend 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

This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do 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

Look, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which has gone down with the sun on the upper steps of Ahaz, to go backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"

9 writing to/for Hezekiah king Judah in/on/with be weak: ill he and to live from sickness his

The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of 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 middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue 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 won't see the LORD in the land of the living. I will not look on humankind any longer 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 dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

13 to set till morning like/as lion so to break all bone my from day till night to complete me

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of 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

I chip like a swallow or a thrush. I moan like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. LORD, I am oppressed. Be my security."

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 will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish 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

The LORD is against them, but they live, and all of them who live have his spirit. Restore me to health and let me 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)

Look, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of 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 can't praise you. And death can't celebrate you. And those who go down into the pit can't 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 shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

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

The LORD will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

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

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."

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

Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?"