Isaiah:38-40

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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 , So says the LORD , Set your house in order , for you shall die and not live . * Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall , and prayed to the LORD , * and said , Remember now , O LORD , I beseech You , how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart , and have done the good in Your sight . And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping . * Then came the Word of the LORD to Isaiah , saying , * Go and say to Hezekiah : So says Jehovah , the God of David your father , I have heard your prayer , I have seen your tears ; behold , I will add to your days fifteen years . * And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria . And I will defend this city . * And this [shall be ] a sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken : * behold , I will bring again the shadow of the steps , which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz , ten steps backward . So the sun returned ten steps , by which steps it had gone down . * The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah , when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness : * I said in the cutting off of my days , I shall go to the gates of the grave ; I have numbered the rest of my years . * I said , I shall not see Jah , Jehovah , in the land of the living ; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world . * My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd 's tent ; I have cut off my life like a weaver ; He will cut me off from the loom ; from day even to night You will make an end of me . * I place [Him ] before me until morning , [that ], as a lion , so He breaks all my bones ; from day even until night You make an end of me . * Like a twittering swallow , so I chatter ; I mourn as a dove ; my eyes look weakly to the heights . O LORD , I am pressed down ; be surety for me . * What shall I say ? He has spoken to me , and He Himself has acted ; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul . * O LORD , by these things men live , and in all these [is ] the life of my spirit ; so You will recover me , and make me to live . * Behold , I had great bitterness for peace ; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction . You have cast all my sins behind Your back . * For the grave cannot praise You , death can [not ] rejoice in You ; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth . * The living , the living , he shall praise You , as I [do ] this day ; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons . * For the LORD [is ] for my salvation ; and we will sing my songs on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD . * For Isaiah had said , Let them take a cake of figs and rub [it ] on the ulcer ; and he will live . * And Hezekiah said , What [is ] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD ? * At that time Merodach-baladan , the son of Baladan , king of Babylon , sent letters and a present to Hezekiah ; for he had heard that he had been sick , and had recovered . * And Hezekiah rejoiced over them , and let them see the house of his precious things , the silver , and the gold , and the spices , and the precious ointment , and all the house of his armor , and all that was found in his treasures . There was nothing in his house , nor in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see . * Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah , and said to him , What did these men say ? And where did they come from to you ? And Hezekiah said , They have come from a far country to me , from Babylon . * Then he said , What have they seen in your house ? And Hezekiah answered , All that [is ] in my house they have seen ; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see . * Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah , Hear the Word of Jehovah of hosts . * Behold , the days come when all that is in your house , and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day , shall be carried to Babylon . Nothing shall be left , says the LORD . * And of your sons which shall issue from you , which you shall bring out , they shall take away ; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon . * Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah , Good [is ] the word of the LORD which you have spoken . And he said , For there shall be peace and truth in my days . * Comfort , O comfort my people , says your God . * Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem , and cry to her that her warfare is done , that her iniquity is pardoned ; for she has received of the LORD 's hand double for all her sins . * The voice of him who cries in the wilderness , Prepare the way of the LORD , make straight a highway in the desert for our God . * Every valley shall be exalted , and every mountain and hill shall be made low ; and the crooked places shall be made level , and the rough places smooth ; * and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed , and all flesh shall see [it ] together ; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken . * The voice said , Cry ! And he said , What shall I cry ? All flesh [is ] grass , and all the beauty of it [is ] as the flower of the field . * The grass withers , the flower fades , because the Spirit of the LORD blows on it ; surely the people [is ] grass . * The grass withers , the flower fades ; but the Word of our God shall stand forever . * Go up for yourself on the high mountain , bringer of good tidings to Zion . Lift up your voice with strength , O you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem ; lift up , do not be afraid . Say to the cities of Judah , Behold your God ! * Behold , the Lord Jehovah will come with a strong [hand ], and His arm shall rule for Him ; behold , His reward [is ] with Him , and His work before Him . * He shall feed His flock like a shepherd ; He shall gather the lambs with His arm , and carry [them ] in His bosom , [and ] shall gently lead those with young . * Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand , and measured out the heavens with a span ? And who has shut up the dust of the earth in a measure , and weighed the mountains in scales , and the hills in a balance ? * Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD , and what man taught Him counsel ? * With whom did He take counsel , and [who ] instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment , and taught Him knowledge , and made known the way of understanding to Him ? * Behold , the nations [are ] like a drop in a bucket , and are counted as the small dust of the scales ; behold , He takes up the coastlands as a very little thing . * And Lebanon [is ] not enough to burn , nor the beasts of it enough [for ] a burnt offering . * All nations before Him [are ] as nothing ; and to Him they are thought to be less than nothing , and vanity . * To whom then will you compare God ? Or what likeness will you compare to Him ? * The workman melts a graven image , and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold , and casts silver chains . * He too poor for [that ] offering chooses a tree that will not rot ; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter . * Have you not known ? Have you not heard ? Has it not been told you from the beginning ? Have you not understood [from ] the foundations of the earth ? * [It is ] He who sits on the circle of the earth , and its people are like grasshoppers ; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain , and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in ; * who brings the rulers to nothing ; He makes the judges of the earth as vanity . * Yes , they shall not be planted ; yes , they shall not be sown . Yes , their stump shall not take root in the earth . And He shall also blow on them , and they shall wither , and the tempest shall take them away like stubble . * To whom then will you compare Me , or [am ] I equaled ? says the Holy One . * Lift up your eyes on high , and behold , who has created these , who brings out their host by number ? He calls them all by names by the greatness of His might , for He is strong in power ; not one is lacking . * Why do you say , O Jacob , and speak , O Israel , My way is hidden from the LORD and my judgment has passed over from my God ? * Have you not known ? Have you not heard , that the everlasting God , Jehovah , the Creator of the ends of the earth , does not grow weak nor weary ? [There is ] no searching of His understanding . * [He ] gives power to the weary ; and to him with no vigor ; He increases strength . * Even the young shall faint and be weary , and the young men shall utterly fall ; * but those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength ; they shall mount up [with ] wings as eagles ; they shall run , and not be weary ; they shall walk and not faint . * Keep silence before Me , O coasts ; and peoples shall renew strength ; let them come near ; then let them speak ; let us come near together for judgment .

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