38:9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent:
I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:13I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:14Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter;
I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward:
O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
38:15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:
I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
38:16O Lord, by these things men live;
And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
38:17Behold, it was for my peace that 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.
38:18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:
The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
38:20Jehovah is ready to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.
38:21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. 38:22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?
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