Isaiah 38
1 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) be weak: ill Hezekiah to/for to die and to come (in): come to(wards) him Isaiah son: child Amoz [the] prophet and to say to(wards) him thus to say LORD to command to/for house: household your for to die you(m. s.) and not to live
About this time Hezekiah fell very sick and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.”
2 and to turn: turn Hezekiah face his to(wards) [the] wall and to pray to(wards) LORD
When Hezekiah heard this, he went to pray privately to the Lord, saying
3 and to say Please! LORD to remember please [obj] which to go: walk to/for face: before your in/on/with truth: faithful and in/on/with heart complete and [the] pleasant in/on/with eye: seeing your to make: do and to weep Hezekiah weeping great: large
“Please remember Lord how I have followed you faithfully with all my heart. I have done what is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah cried and cried.
4 and to be word LORD to(wards) Isaiah to/for to say
Then the Lord sent a message to Isaiah, saying,
5 to go: went and to say to(wards) Hezekiah thus to say LORD God David father your to hear: hear [obj] prayer your to see: see [obj] tears your look! I to add upon day your five ten year
“Go and tell Hezekiah, This is what the Lord, the God of your forefather David, says: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life.
6 and from palm king Assyria to rescue you and [obj] [the] city [the] this and to defend upon [the] city [the] this
I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
7 and this to/for you [the] sign: miraculous from with LORD which to make: do LORD [obj] [the] word: thing [the] this which to speak: promise
This is the sign from the Lord to you that the Lord will do what he promised:
8 look! I to return: return [obj] shadow [the] step which to go down in/on/with step Ahaz in/on/with sun backwards ten step and to return: return [the] sun ten step in/on/with step which to go down
Look, I will make the shadow made by the sun go back the ten steps that it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. So the sun went back the ten steps that it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.”
9 writing to/for Hezekiah king Judah in/on/with be weak: ill he and to live from sickness his
This is what Hezekiah, king of Judah, wrote after he recovered from his sickness:
10 I to say in/on/with quiet day my to go: went in/on/with gate hell: Sheol to reckon: put remainder year my (Sheol h7585)
I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on the rest of my years?” (Sheol h7585)
11 to say not to see: see LORD LORD in/on/with land: country/planet [the] alive not to look man still with to dwell world
I said, “I will never again see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living. I won't see anyone else again, none of the inhabitants of this world.
12 generation my to set out and to reveal: remove from me like/as tent to pasture my to roll like/as to weave life my from hair to cut off me from day till night to complete me
Like a shepherd's tent, the place where I live has been pulled up and taken away from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up the cloth of my life and cut it from the loom. Day and night you bring me to an end.
13 to set till morning like/as lion so to break all bone my from day till night to complete me
I lie there patiently until the morning, but I feel like there's a lion breaking every bone in my body. Day and night you bring me to an end.
14 like/as swallow crane so to whisper to mutter like/as dove to languish eye my to/for height Lord oppression to/for me to pledge me
I scream like a swift or a songbird, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow dim as I look heavenwards. I'm being attacked, Lord, please come and support me!
15 what? to speak: speak and to say to/for me and he/she/it to make: do to go slowly all year my upon bitter soul my
Yet what can I say? He told me what was going to happen, and he himself did it. I will walk quietly for the rest of my life because of the painful experience I went through.
16 Lord upon them to live and to/for all in/on/with them life spirit my and be healthy me and to live me
Lord, we live by what you say and do, and I find life in all of this. You have given me back my health and allowed me to live.
17 behold to/for peace: well-being bitter to/for me to provoke and you(m. s.) to desire soul: life my from Pit: hell without for to throw after back your all sin my (questioned)
It was definitely for my own good I went through this bitter experience. You in your love saved me from the pit of destruction and you have forgiven all my sins.
18 for not hell: Sheol to give thanks you death to boast: praise you not to await to go down pit to(wards) truth: faithful your (Sheol h7585)
Those in the grave cannot praise you, the dead cannot praise you. Those who go down into the pit can no longer hope in your faithfulness. (Sheol h7585)
19 alive alive he/she/it to give thanks you like me [the] day father to/for son: child to know to(wards) truth: faithful your
It's only the living who can praise you as I'm doing today. Parents explain to their children how you can be trusted.
20 LORD to/for to save me and music my to play all day life our upon house: temple LORD
The Lord saved me! We will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the Lord's Temple.”
21 and to say Isaiah to lift: raise fig cake fig and to rub upon [the] boil and to live
Isaiah had said, “Prepare a dressing of figs and spread it on the skin sores so he may recover.”
22 and to say Hezekiah what? sign: miraculous for to ascend: rise house: temple LORD
Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign to confirm that I will go to the Lord's Temple?”
