Isaiah 38:5-20 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ "Go, and tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city." ' ⁷ Isaiah said:" This is your sign from the LORD that he will do what he promises. ⁸ See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down. ⁹ A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he was sick and had recovered from his sickness: ¹⁰ I said in the pause of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall not see Jah, the LORD, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world. ¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up 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. ¹³ I leveled my soul until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day until night You make an end of me. ¹⁴ "I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, the LORD. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me. ¹⁵ What can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: You restore me, and cause me to live. ¹⁷ »Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ "For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. ¹⁹ "The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness. ²⁰ "the LORD will save me! We will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the Temple of the LORD."