“1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then
Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3
And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before
thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done [that which is]
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 4 Then came the word of the
LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD,
the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 6 And I will
deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I
will defend this city. 7 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from the
LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; 8 Behold, I
will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the
sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees,
by which degrees it was gone down.”
“9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and
was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days,
I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my
years. 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land
of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the
world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s
tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with
pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my
bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me. 14 Like a
crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes
fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. 15
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
[it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 16 O
Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life
of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 17 Behold,
for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul
[delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my
sins behind thy back. 18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can
[not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this
day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. 20 The LORD
[was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed
instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. 21 For
Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a
plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said,
What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?” (Isaiah
38:1-22 AV)