以赛亚书 38
1 那时希西家病得要死，亚摩斯的儿子先知以赛亚去见他，对他说：“耶和华如此说：你当留遗命与你的家，因为你必死不能活了。”
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the point of dying. So Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, 'Set your house in order; for you will die, not live.'”
2 希西家就转脸朝墙，祷告耶和华说：
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh.
3 “耶和华啊，求你记念我在你面前怎样存完全的心，按诚实行事，又做你眼中所看为善的。”希西家就痛哭了。
He said, “Please, Yahweh, call to mind how I have faithfully walked before you with my whole heart, and how I have done what was good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept loudly.
4 耶和华的话临到以赛亚说：
Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying,
5 “你去告诉希西家说，耶和华—你祖大卫的 神如此说：我听见了你的祷告，看见了你的眼泪。我必加增你十五年的寿数；
“Go and say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor, says: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. See, I am about to add fifteen years to your life.
6 并且我要救你和这城脱离亚述王的手，也要保护这城。
Then I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
7 “我—耶和华必成就我所说的。我先给你一个兆头，
This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that I will do what I have promised.
8 就是叫亚哈斯的日晷，向前进的日影往后退十度。”于是，前进的日影果然在日晷上往后退了十度。
Look, I will cause the shadow on the stairs of Ahaz to go back ten steps.'” So the shadow went back ten steps of the stairs on which it had advanced.
9 犹大王希西家患病已经痊愈，就作诗说：
This was the written prayer of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and then recovered:
“I said that halfway through my life I will go through the gates of Sheol; I am sent there for the rest of my years. (Sheol h7585)
11 我说：我必不得见耶和华， 就是在活人之地不见耶和华； 我与世上的居民不再见面。
I said that I will no longer see Yahweh, Yahweh in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind or the inhabitants of the world.
12 我的住处被迁去离开我， 好像牧人的帐棚一样； 我将性命卷起， 像织布的卷布一样。 耶和华必将我从机头剪断， 从早到晚，他要使我完结。
My life is removed and carried away from me like a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up my life like a weaver; you are cutting me off from the loom; between day and night you are ending my life.
13 我使自己安静直到天亮； 他像狮子折断我一切的骨头， 从早到晚，他要使我完结。
I cried out until the morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones. Between day and night you are ending my life.
14 我像燕子呢喃， 像白鹤鸣叫， 又像鸽子哀鸣； 我因仰观，眼睛困倦。 耶和华啊，我受欺压， 求你为我作保。
Like a swallow I chirp; I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired with looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; help me.
15 我可说什么呢？ 他应许我的，也给我成就了。 我因心里的苦楚， 在一生的年日必悄悄而行。
What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, and has done it; I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.
16 主啊，人得存活乃在乎此。 我灵存活也全在此。 所以求你使我痊愈，仍然存活。
Lord, the sufferings you send are good for me; may my life be given back to me; you have restored my life and health.
17 看哪，我受大苦，本为使我得平安； 你因爱我的灵魂便救我脱离败坏的坑， 因为你将我一切的罪扔在你的背后。
It was for my benefit that I experienced such grief. You have rescued me from the pit of destruction; for you have thrown all my sins behind your back.
For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down into the pit do not hope in your trustworthiness. (Sheol h7585)
19 只有活人，活人必称谢你， 像我今日称谢你一样。 为父的，必使儿女知道你的诚实。
The living person, the living person, he is the one who gives you thanks, as I do this day; a father makes known to children your trustworthiness.
20 耶和华肯救我， 所以，我们要一生一世 在耶和华殿中 用丝弦的乐器唱我的诗歌。
Yahweh is about to save me, and we will celebrate with music all the days of our lives in the house of Yahweh.”
21 以赛亚说：“当取一块无花果饼来，贴在疮上，王必痊愈。”
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs and put it on the boil, and he will recover.”
22 希西家问说：“我能上耶和华的殿，有什么兆头呢？”
Hezekiah also had said, “What will be the sign that I should go up to the house of Yahweh?”
