KJB-1611 ISA Chapter 38

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1 Hezekiah hauing receiued a message of death, by prayer hath his life lengthened. 8 The Sunne goeth tenne degrees backward, for a signe of that promise. 9 His song of Thankesgiuing.

XXXVIII ¶ [ref][fn]In those daies was Hezekiah sicke vnto death: and Isaiah the Prophet the sonne of Amoz came vnto him, and said vnto him; Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not liue.2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed vnto the LORD,3 [fn]And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I haue walked before thee in trueth, and with a perfect heart, and haue done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore.4 ¶ Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,5 Goe and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Dauid thy father; I haue heard thy prayer, I haue seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.6 And I will deliuer thee and this citie, out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this citie.7 And this shall be a signe vnto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will doe this thing that he hath spoken.8 [fn]Behold, I will bring againe the shadow of the degrees which is gone downe in the Sunne-diall of Ahaz ten degrees backward: so the Sunne returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone downe.9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Iudah, when he had bene sicke, and was recouered of his sicknesse:10 I saide in the cutting off of my dayes; I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.11 I said, I shal not see the LORD, euen the LORD in the land of the liuing: I shal behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.12 [fn]Mine age is departed, and is remoued from me as a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut mee off with pining sicknesse: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.13 I reckoned till morning, that as a Lyon so will hee breake all my bones: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.14 [fn]Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourne as a doue: mine eyes faile with looking vpward: O LORD, I am oppressed, vndertake for me.15 What shall I say? hee hath both spoken vnto mee, and himselfe hath done it: I shall goe softly, all my yeeres in the bitternesse of my soule.16 O LORD, by these things men liue: and in all these things is the life of my spirit, so wilt thou recouer me, and make me to liue.17 [fn][fn]Behold, for peace I had great bitternesse, but thou hast in loue to my soule deliuered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.18 For the graue cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that goe downe into the pit cannot hope for thy trueth.19 The liuing, the liuing, hee shall praise thee, as I doe this day: the father to the children shall make knowen thy trueth.20 The LORD was ready to saue me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the dayes of our life, in the house of the LORD.21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lumpe of figges, and lay it for a plaister vpon the boile, and he shall recouer.22 Hezekiah also had said, what is the signe, that I shall goe vp to the house of the LORD?

38:1 Hebr. giue charge concerning thy house.

38:3 Hebr. with great weeping.

38:8 Hebr. degrees by, or with the Sunne.

38:12 Or, From the thrum.

38:14 Or, ease me.

38:17 Or, on my peace came great bitternesse.

38:17 Hebr. thou hast loued me from the pit.

38:1 2.Kin.20. 2.chron. 32.24.