ukjv - Isaiah:38-40

ukjv@Isaiah:38:1 @ In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus says the LORD, Set yours house in order: for you shall die, and not live.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:2 @ Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

ukjv@Isaiah:38:3 @ And said, Remember now, O LORD, I plead to you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:4 @ Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

ukjv@Isaiah:38:5 @ Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add unto your days fifteen years.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:7 @ And this shall be a sign unto you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken;

ukjv@Isaiah:38:8 @ 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.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:9 @ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

ukjv@Isaiah:38:10 @ 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.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:11 @ 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.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:12 @ 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 will you make an end of me.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:14 @ 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.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:15 @ What shall I say? he has both spoken unto me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me, and make me to live.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:20 @ 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.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:21 @ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

ukjv@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

ukjv@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

ukjv@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.

ukjv@Isaiah:39:3 @ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto you? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

ukjv@Isaiah:39:4 @ Then said he, What have they seen in yours house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

ukjv@Isaiah:39:5 @ Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

ukjv@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, that all that is in yours 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.

ukjv@Isaiah:39:7 @ And of your sons that shall issue from you, which you shall brought forth, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

ukjv@Isaiah:39:8 @ Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which you have spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort all of you, comfort all of you my people, says your God.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak all of you comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:3 @ The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare all of you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

ukjv@Isaiah:40:5 @ And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:6 @ The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

ukjv@Isaiah:40:7 @ The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:9 @ O Zion, that bring good tidings, get you up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bring good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

ukjv@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:11 @ 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 that are with young.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

ukjv@Isaiah:40:13 @ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor has taught him?

ukjv@Isaiah:40:14 @ With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

ukjv@Isaiah:40:15 @ Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:16 @ And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:17 @ All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom then will all of you liken God? or what likeness will all of you compare unto him?

ukjv@Isaiah:40:19 @ The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:20 @ He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:21 @ Have all of you not known? have all of you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have all of you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

ukjv@Isaiah:40:22 @ It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

ukjv@Isaiah:40:23 @ That brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:24 @ Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:25 @ To whom then will all of you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:27 @ Why says you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

ukjv@Isaiah:40:28 @ Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:29 @ He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.

ukjv@Isaiah:40:30 @ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

ukjv@Isaiah:40:31 @ But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

ukjv@Isaiah:41:1 @ Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.