38:1
in diebus illis aegrotavit Ezechias usque ad mortem etintroivit ad eum Isaias filius Amos propheta et dixit ei haecdicit Dominus dispone domui tuae quia morieris tu et non vives

38:2
et convertit Ezechias faciem suam ad parietem et oravit adDominum

38:3
et dixit obsecro Domine memento quaeso quomodo ambulaverimcoram te in veritate et in corde perfecto et quod bonum est inoculis tuis fecerim et flevit Ezechias fletu magno

38:4
et factum est verbum Domini ad Isaiam dicens

38:5
vade et dic Ezechiae haec dicit Dominus Deus David patristui audivi orationem tuam vidi lacrimam tuam ecce ego adiciamsuper dies tuos quindecim annos

38:6
et de manu regis Assyriorum eruam te et civitatem istam etprotegam eam

38:7
hoc autem tibi erit signum a Domino quia faciet Dominusverbum hoc quod locutus est

38:8
ecce ego reverti faciam umbram linearum per quasdescenderat in horologio Ahaz in sole retrorsum decem lineis etreversus est sol decem lineis per gradus quos descenderat

38:9
scriptura Ezechiae regis Iuda cum aegrotasset etconvaluisset de infirmitate sua

38:10
ego dixi in dimidio dierum meorum vadam ad portas inferiquaesivi residuum annorum meorum

38:11
dixi non videbo Dominum Dominum in terra viventium nonaspiciam hominem ultra et habitatorem quievit

38:12
generatio mea ablata est et convoluta est a me quasitabernaculum pastorum praecisa est velut a texente vita mea dumadhuc ordirer succidit me de mane usque ad vesperam finies me

38:13
sperabam usque ad mane quasi leo sic contrivit omnia ossamea de mane usque ad vesperam finies me

38:14
sicut pullus hirundinis sic clamabo meditabor ut columbaadtenuati sunt oculi mei suspicientes in excelsum Domine vimpatior sponde pro me

38:15
quid dicam aut quid respondebit mihi cum ipse feceritrecogitabo omnes annos meos in amaritudine animae meae

38:16
Domine sic vivitur et in talibus vita spiritus meicorripies me et vivificabis me

38:17
ecce in pace amaritudo mea amarissima tu autem eruistianimam meam ut non periret proiecisti post tergum tuum omniapeccata mea

38:18
quia non infernus confitebitur tibi neque mors laudabit tenon expectabunt qui descendunt in lacum veritatem tuam

38:19
vivens vivens ipse confitebitur tibi sicut et ego hodiepater filiis notam faciet veritatem tuam

38:20
Domine salvum me fac et psalmos nostros cantabimus cunctisdiebus vitae nostrae in domo Domini

38:21
et iussit Isaias ut tollerent massam de ficis etcataplasmarent super vulnus et sanaretur

38:22
et dixit Ezechias quod erit signum quia ascendam in domoDomini

Continued...

038:001
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.

038:002
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

038:003
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.

038:004
Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

038:005
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.

038:006
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

038:007
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

038:008
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.

038:009
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

038:010
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.

038:011
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.

038:012
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.

038:013
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.

038:014
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.

038:015
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.

038:016
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.

038:017
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.

038:018
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

038:019
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

038:020
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.

038:021
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

038:022
Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

Back to Top