Isaiah 38

²⁴In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the Lord, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

¹In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

¹In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying,

²³When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

¹⁰When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

³⁷At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

⁶But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

¹⁵Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

³⁰Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

¹⁵When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

⁷During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

¹⁰For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

²⁰The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

¹⁴Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.

²⁰So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the Lord his God.

²¹He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

¹²For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

¹⁵And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

⁵Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

⁶This poor man called out, and the Lord heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

¹⁷For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

¹³But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

³He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

⁸You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?

³⁵‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

⁴For this is what the Lord has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the Lord of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.

⁵Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

¹⁷But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

²²So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all others, and He gave them rest on every side.

³⁰And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

³⁷then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”

³⁸And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.

⁸Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”

⁹And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

¹⁷Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

¹⁸Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set it before You.” And the Lord said, “I will stay until you return.”

¹¹“Ask for a sign from the Lord your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

¹²But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the Lord.”

¹³I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

⁹And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”

¹⁰“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

¹²On the day that the Lord gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the Lord in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

¹³So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”

¹Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.

²⁴In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the Lord, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

³¹And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.

¹On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:

²“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the Lord.

¹⁸For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

¹For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the Lord, who sang this song to the Lord on the day the Lord had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O Lord, my strength.

¹In that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

²Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

¹From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God,

²saying: “In my distress I called to the Lord, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

³⁰Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the Lord in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.

⁹Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

²⁴I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

⁷Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

¹⁸They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

¹In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

¹¹What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

¹³Still I am certain to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

⁸For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

⁹I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

⁵For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

⁶Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.

⁴Turn, O Lord, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

⁵For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

¹⁴How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

¹⁵and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

²²In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

¹For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

¹²You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

¹⁴For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

²⁰She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

¹⁴You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

³So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.

⁴When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

⁸Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

²⁴At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

²⁴As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

²⁵And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.

¹⁰Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

³⁰That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

³¹Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

¹⁶Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

¹⁷You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

¹¹We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

³I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

²⁹I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

¹⁶The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

¹A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

²As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the Lord our God until He shows us mercy.

¹²²Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

¹²³My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.

¹¹Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁷When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.

¹“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁵Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

²⁷When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

⁸O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

²⁵My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

³²But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.

¹¹No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

⁴But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

¹⁹A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

²⁰so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

³He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

²⁵I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

¹⁸Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

⁶To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O Lord my God!

³O Lord, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

³⁴No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

¹³For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

¹⁰Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

⁹“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

⁵For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

¹⁰Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

¹¹Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹⁷It is not the dead who praise the Lord, nor any who descend into silence.

¹⁸But it is we who will bless the Lord, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!

³³They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

⁷And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

¹⁷⁵Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.

⁹Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

³that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

⁴We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the Lord and His might and the wonders He has performed.

¹⁹Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

³Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

²Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

⁴Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

¹⁵O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.

¹⁹God the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

⁷Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.

⁸Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”

⁶When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

³³So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

⁸Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?”

¹⁴Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

¹⁸The Lord disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

¹⁹Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the Lord.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and a shield; the Lord gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

¹A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”