Isaiah 38

1In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”Cross-references: 2Sam 17:23 · 2Ki 20:1 · 2Chr 32:24 · Eccl 9:10 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 37:2 · +8 more

2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,Cross-references: 1Ki 8:30 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · Matt 6:6

3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.Cross-references: Gen 5:22 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 17:1 · Deut 6:18 · 2Sam 12:21 · 1Ki 2:4 · +29 more

4Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,

5“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:3 · 1Ki 8:25 · 1Ki 9:4 · 1Ki 11:12 · 1Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 18:2 · +18 more

6I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:22 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 31:4 · Isa 37:35 · 2Tim 4:17

7This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.Cross-references: Gen 9:13 · Judg 6:17 · Judg 6:37 · 2Ki 20:8 · Isa 7:11 · Isa 37:30 · +1 more

8Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.Cross-references: Josh 10:12 · 2Ki 20:9 · 2Chr 32:24 · 2Chr 32:31 · Matt 16:1

9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness:Cross-references: Ex 15:1 · Deut 32:39 · Judg 5:1 · 1Sam 2:1 · 2Chr 29:30 · Job 5:18 · +8 more

10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”Cross-references: Job 6:11 · Job 7:7 · Job 17:11 · Ps 102:24 · Ps 107:18 · Isa 38:1 · +1 more

11I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.Cross-references: Job 35:14 · Ps 6:4 · Ps 27:13 · Ps 31:22 · Ps 116:8 · Eccl 9:5

12My 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.Cross-references: Job 4:20 · Job 6:9 · Job 7:3 · Job 9:25 · Job 14:2 · Job 17:1 · +13 more

13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:24 · 1Ki 20:36 · Job 10:16 · Job 16:12 · Ps 39:10 · Ps 50:22 · +4 more

14I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”Cross-references: Job 17:3 · Job 30:29 · Ps 69:3 · Ps 102:4 · Ps 119:82 · Ps 119:122 · +6 more

15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.Cross-references: Josh 7:8 · 1Sam 1:10 · 1Ki 21:27 · 2Ki 4:27 · Ezra 9:10 · Job 7:11 · +4 more

16Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live.Cross-references: Deut 8:3 · Job 33:19 · Ps 71:20 · Ps 119:25 · Isa 64:5 · Matt 4:4 · +3 more

17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.Cross-references: Job 3:25 · Job 29:18 · Ps 10:2 · Ps 30:3 · Ps 30:6 · Ps 40:2 · +7 more

18For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.Cross-references: Num 16:33 · Ps 6:5 · Ps 30:9 · Ps 88:10 · Ps 115:17 · Prov 14:32 · +4 more

19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Ex 12:26 · Ex 13:14 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 6:7 · Deut 11:19 · +9 more

20Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Ps 9:13 · Ps 27:5 · Ps 30:11 · Ps 33:2 · Ps 51:15 · Ps 66:13 · +6 more

21Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”Cross-references: 2Ki 20:7 · Mark 7:33 · John 9:6

22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”Cross-references: 2Ki 20:8 · Ps 42:1 · Ps 84:1 · Ps 84:10 · Ps 118:18 · Ps 122:1 · +1 more