Isaiah:38
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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 .
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Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall ,
and prayed unto the LORD ,
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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 .
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Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah ,
saying ,
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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 .
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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria :
and I will defend this city .
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And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD ,
that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken ;
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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 .
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The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah ,
when he had been sick ,
and was recovered of his sickness :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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For the grave cannot praise thee ,
death can not celebrate thee :
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth .
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The living ,
the living ,
he shall praise thee ,
as I do this day :
the father to the children shall make known thy truth .
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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 .
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For Isaiah had said ,
Let them take a lump of figs ,
and lay it for a plaister upon the boil ,
and he shall recover .
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Hezekiah also had said ,
What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD ?