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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the LORD says, 'Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The LORD told Isaiah, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"Go and tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city."'" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Isaiah replied, "This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said: |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz." And then the shadow went back ten steps. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness: |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"I thought, 'In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.' |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"I thought, 'I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O sovereign master, I am oppressed; help me! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The LORD is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the LORD's temple." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Isaiah ordered, "Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Hezekiah said, "What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the LORD's temple?" |
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