Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 38

Around that time, Hezekiah became . The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what Yahweh says: , because you are going to die — you won’t recover from this.”Hezekiah and prayed to Yahweh.“Please, Yahweh, remember how I have faithfully and with my . I have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah .Then came to Isaiah:“Go and tell Hezekiah: This is what Yahweh, , says — I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. I am to your life.”“And I will you and this city from the hand of the . I will defend this city.”“And this will be the to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do what he has promised:”“I am going to make the shadow on the go back ten steps — the shadow that has already gone down.” And the sunlight went back ten steps on the stairway where it had gone down.A of Hezekiah king of Judah, after his illness and recovery:I said, “In the middle of my life I must pass through the . I am of the rest of my years.”I said, “I will not see — Yah in the . I will never again look on another human being among those who dwell in this world.”My home is pulled up and carried away from me like a . I have rolled up my life like a ; he cuts me off from the loom. Between daybreak and nightfall, you finish me off.I waited until morning, but like a , he was breaking all my bones. Between daybreak and nightfall, you finish me off.Like a swallow or a crane, I chirped; I moaned like a dove. My eyes grew weak looking upward. Yahweh, I am — !What can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this. I will all my years because of the ., by these things people truly live, and my finds its life in all of them. You have restored me and let me live.Look — it was for my own that I had such bitter suffering. You from the by throwing all my behind your back.Because the cannot thank you, death cannot praise you. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope in your . — they are the ones who thank you, as I do today. A father makes your faithfulness known to his children.Yahweh is ready to me! So we will play our stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the .Isaiah had said, “Prepare a and apply it to the , and he will recover.”Hezekiah had also asked, “What is the sign that I will to the house of Yahweh?”