Isaiæ 38

1 In diebus illis aegrotavit Ezechias usque ad mortem: et introivit ad eum Isaias filius Amos propheta, et dixit ei: Haec dicit Dominus: Dispone domui tuae, quia morieris tu, et non vives.

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 Et convertit Ezechias faciem suam ad parietem, et oravit ad Dominum,

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

3 et dixit: Obsecro Domine, memento quaeso quomodo ambulaverim coram te in veritate, et in corde perfecto, et quod bonum est in oculis tuis fecerim. Et flevit Ezechias fletu magno.

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 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Isaiam, dicens:

And a word of YHWH is to Isaiah, saying,

5 Vade, et dic Ezechiae: Haec dicit Dominus Deus David patris tui: Audivi orationem tuam, et vidi lacrymas tuas: ecce ego adiiciam super dies tuos quindecim annos:

“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 et de manu regis Assyriorum eruam te, et civitatem istam, et protegam eam.

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

7 Hoc autem tibi erit signum a Domino, quia faciet Dominus verbum hoc, quod locutus est:

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

8 Ecce ego reverti faciam umbram linearum, per quas descenderat in horologio Achaz in sole, retrorsum decem lineis. Et reversus est sol decem lineis per gradus, quos descenderat.

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 Scriptura Ezechiae regis Iuda cum aegrotasset, et convaluisset de infirmitate sua.

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

10 Ego dixi: In dimidio dierum meorum vadam ad portas inferi. Quaesivi residuum annorum meorum. (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 dixi: Non videbo Dominum Deum in terra viventium. Non aspiciam hominem ultra, et habitatorem quietis.

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 Generatio mea ablata est; et convoluta est a me, quasi tabernaculum pastorum: Praecisa est velut a texente, vita mea: dum adhuc ordirer, succidit me: de mane usque ad vesperam finies 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 Sperabam usque ad mane, quasi leo sic contrivit omnia ossa mea: De mane usque ad vesperam finies me:

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

14 sicut pullus hirundinis sic clamabo, meditabor ut columba: Attenuati sunt oculi mei, suspicientes in excelsum: Domine vim patior, responde pro 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 Quid dicam, aut quid respondebit mihi, cum ipse fecerit? Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritudine animae meae.

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 Domine si sic vivitur, et in talibus vita spiritus mei, corripies me, et vivificabis 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 Ecce in pace amaritudo mea amarissima: Tu autem eruisti animam meam ut non periret, proiecisti post tergum tuum omnia peccata mea.

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 Quia non infernus confitebitur tibi, neque mors laudabit te: non expectabunt qui descendunt in lacum, veritatem tuam. (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 Vivens vivens ipse confitebitur tibi, sicut et ego hodie: pater filiis notam faciet veritatem tuam.

The living, the living, he confesses You,

20 Domine salvum me fac, et psalmos nostros cantabimus cunctis diebus vitae nostrae in domo Domini.

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 Et iussit Isaias ut tollerent massam de ficis, et cataplasmarent super vulnus, et sanaretur.

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

22 Et dixit Ezechias: Quod erit signum quia ascendam in domum Domini?

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