rsv Isaiah:38:9-22
rsv@Isaiah:38:9 @ A writing of Hezeki'ah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
rsv@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said, In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.
rsv@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
rsv@Isaiah:38:12 @ My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end;
rsv@Isaiah:38:13 @ I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end.
rsv@Isaiah:38:14 @ Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!
rsv@Isaiah:38:15 @ But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.
rsv@Isaiah:38:16 @ O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!
rsv@Isaiah:38:17 @ Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
rsv@Isaiah:38:18 @ For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.
rsv@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.
rsv@Isaiah:38:20 @ The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our life, at the house of the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."
rsv@Isaiah:38:22 @ Hezeki'ah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"