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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 L
ORD
, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not
live.
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Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the L
ORD
,
3
And said,
Remember now, O L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
to Isaiah, saying,
5
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
L
ORD
, 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.
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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 L
ORD
, that the
L
ORD
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:
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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.
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I said, I shall not see the L
ORD
,
even
the L
ORD
, 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.
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Like
a crane
or
a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail
with looking
upward:
O L
ORD
, 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.
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For the grave cannot
praise thee, death can
not
celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
?
CHAPTER 39
At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to
Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
2
And Hezekiah was glad of
them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices,
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