Isaiah:38

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* In those days Hezekiah was sick to death . And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him , and said to him , Thus says LORD , Set thy house in order , for thou shall die , and not live . * Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall , and prayed to LORD , * 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 greatly . * Then the word of LORD came to Isaiah , saying , * Go , and say to Hezekiah , Thus says LORD , the God of David thy father . I have heard thy prayer . I have seen thy tears . Behold , I will add to thy days fifteen years . * And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria , and I will defend this city . * And this shall be the sign to thee from LORD , that LORD will do this thing that he has spoken : * Behold , I will cause the shadow on the steps , which has gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun , to return backward ten steps . So the sun returned ten steps on the dial on which it had gone down . * The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah when he had been sick , and was recovered of his sickness : * I said , In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol . I am deprived of the residue of my years . * I said , I shall not see LORD , [even ] LORD in the land of the living . I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world . * My dwelling is removed , and is carried away from me as a shepherd 's tent . I have rolled up , like a weaver , my life . He will cut me off from the loom . From day even to night thou will make an end of me . * I quieted [myself ] until morning . As a lion , so he breaks all my bones . From day even to night will thou make an end of me . * Like a swallow [or ] a crane , so I chattered . I moaned as a dove . My eyes fail [with looking ] upward . O LORD , I am oppressed , be thou my surety . * What shall I say ? He has both spoken to me , and himself has done it . I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul . * O LORD , by these things men live , and wholly therein is the life of my spirit . Therefore recover thou me , and make me to live . * Behold , for peace I had great bitterness . But thou have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption . For thou have cast all my sins behind thy back . * For Sheol cannot praise thee , death cannot celebrate thee . Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth . * The living , the living , he shall praise thee , as I do this day . The father to the sons shall make known thy truth . * LORD is [ready ] to save me . Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of LORD . * Now Isaiah had said , Let them take a cake of figs , and lay it for a plaster upon the boil , and he shall recover . * Hezekiah also had said , What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of LORD ?

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