nkjv Isaiah:38:9-22
nkjv@Isaiah:38:9 @ This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
nkjv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said, "In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years."
nkjv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, "I shall not see Yah, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I have considered until morning-- Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!
nkjv@Isaiah:38:15 @ "What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitterness of my soul.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O Lord, by these things men live; And in all these things is the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I do this day; The father shall make known Your truth to the children.
nkjv@Isaiah:38:20 @ "The LORD was ready to save me; Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD."
nkjv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover."
nkjv@Isaiah:38:22 @ And Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"