Isaiah 38
1 In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou [art] dying, and dost not live.'
那時希西家病得要死，亞摩斯的兒子先知以賽亞去見他，對他說：「耶和華如此說：你當留遺命與你的家，因為你必死不能活了。」
2 And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,
希西家就轉臉朝牆，禱告耶和華說：
3 and saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth — a great weeping.
「耶和華啊，求你記念我在你面前怎樣存完全的心，按誠實行事，又做你眼中所看為善的。」希西家就痛哭了。
4 And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,
耶和華的話臨到以賽亞說：
5 Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,
「你去告訴希西家說，耶和華－你祖大衛的上帝如此說：我聽見了你的禱告，看見了你的眼淚。我必加增你十五年的壽數；
6 and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
並且我要救你和這城脫離亞述王的手，也要保護這城。
7 And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.
「我－耶和華必成就我所說的。我先給你一個兆頭，
8 Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.
就是叫亞哈斯的日晷，向前進的日影往後退十度。」於是，前進的日影果然在日晷上往後退了十度。
9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
猶大王希西家患病已經痊癒，就作詩說：
10 'I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years. (Sheol h7585)
我說：正在我中年之日 必進入陰間的門； 我餘剩的年歲不得享受。 (Sheol h7585)
11 I said, I do not see Jah — Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.
我說：我必不得見耶和華， 就是在活人之地不見耶和華； 我與世上的居民不再見面。
12 My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
我的住處被遷去離開我， 好像牧人的帳棚一樣； 我將性命捲起， 像織布的捲布一樣。 耶和華必將我從機頭剪斷， 從早到晚，他要使我完結。
13 I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
我使自己安靜直到天亮； 他像獅子折斷我一切的骨頭， 從早到晚，他要使我完結。
14 As a crane — a swallow — so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.
我像燕子呢喃， 像白鶴鳴叫， 又像鴿子哀鳴； 我因仰觀，眼睛困倦。 耶和華啊，我受欺壓， 求你為我作保。
15 — What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
我可說甚麼呢？ 他應許我的，也給我成就了。 我因心裏的苦楚， 在一生的年日必悄悄而行。
16 Lord, by these do [men] live, And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,
主啊，人得存活乃在乎此。 我靈存活也全在此。 所以求你使我痊癒，仍然存活。
17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
看哪，我受大苦，本為使我得平安； 你因愛我的靈魂便救我脫離敗壞的坑， 因為你將我一切的罪扔在你的背後。
18 For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. (Sheol h7585)
原來，陰間不能稱謝你， 死亡不能頌揚你； 下坑的人不能盼望你的誠實。 (Sheol h7585)
19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
只有活人，活人必稱謝你， 像我今日稱謝你一樣。 為父的，必使兒女知道你的誠實。
20 Like myself to-day — a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah — to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'
耶和華肯救我， 所以，我們要一生一世 在耶和華殿中 用絲弦的樂器唱我的詩歌。
21 And Isaiah saith, 'Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'
以賽亞說：「當取一塊無花果餅來，貼在瘡上，王必痊癒。」
22 And Hezekiah saith, 'What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
希西家問說：「我能上耶和華的殿，有甚麼兆頭呢？」
