Isaiah 38
38:1And it came to pass in that time Hezekiah was infirm unto death. And there came to him Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet; and he said to him, Thus says the lord, Give orders concerning your house! for you die, and shall not live.
38:2And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the lord,
38:3saying, Remember, O lord, as I was gone before you with truth, in a true heart, and the things pleasing before you I did. And Hezekiah wept with great weeping.
38:4And the word of the lord came to Isaiah, saying,
38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the lord, the God of David your father; I heard your prayer, and beheld your tears. Behold, I add to your time fifteen years.
38:6And from out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians I shall rescue you, and this city; and I shall shield over this city.
38:7And this is the sign to you from the lord, that God will do this thing which he said.
38:8Behold, I shall turn the shadow of the stairs which the sun went down the ten stairs of the house of your father. I will return the sun the ten stairs which the shadow went down.
38:9The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea when he was infirm and he rose up from his infirmity.
38:10I said in the height of my days, I shall go to the gates of Hades; I shall forsake the years remaining.
38:11I said, No longer in any way shall I behold the deliverance of God upon the land of the living. No longer in any way shall I behold a man with ones inhabiting.
38:12I failed my kin; I forsook the rest of my life; it departed and went forth from me as the one resting up pitching a tent. My spirit in me became as the web of one working in wool approaching to cut it off.
38:13In that day I was delivered over until morning. As a lion so he broke all my bones. For from the day until the night I was delivered over.
38:14As a swallow, so shall I call out, and as a dove, so shall I meditate. For my eyes failed to see into the height of the heaven, to the lord who rescued me.
38:15And he removed the grief of my soul, and he acted.
38:16O lord, for concerning this it was announced to you, and you awakened my breath, and being comforted I live.
38:17Behold, being in peace was bitter for me. For you took up my soul, that it should not perish; and you threw away all my sins behind me.
38:18For the ones in Hades shall not praise you; nor the ones dying shall bless you; nor shall the ones in Hades hope on your charity.
38:19The living shall bless you in which manner as I; for from today I shall produce children who shall announce your righteousness,
38:20O lord of my deliverance; even I will not cease blessing you with the psaltery all the days of my life, before the house of God.
38:21And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Take a dried cluster of figs, and grind them, and plaster with it, and you will be in health.
38:22And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I shall ascend into the house of God.