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== Yeshayahu (Book of Isaiah), Chapter 38 ==

<named id="1"/>1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: 'Thus saith HaShem: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.'

<named id="2"/>2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto HaShem,

<named id="3"/>3 and said: 'Remember now, O HaShem, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore.

<named id="4"/>4 Then came the word of HaShem to Isaiah, saying:

<named id="5"/>5 'Go, and say to Hezekiah: Thus saith HaShem, the G-d of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

<named id="6"/>6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.

<named id="7"/>7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from HaShem, that HaShem will do this thing that He hath spoken:

<named id="8"/>8 behold, I will cause the shadow of the dial, which is gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz, to return backward ten degrees.' So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

<named id="9"/>9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

<named id="10"/>10 I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.

<named id="11"/>11 I said: I shall not see HaShem, even HaShem in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

<named id="12"/>12 My habitation is plucked up and carried away from me as a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up like a weaver my life; He will cut me off from the thrum; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.

<named id="13"/>13 The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it breaketh all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.

<named id="14"/>14 Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O HaShem, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.

<named id="15"/>15 What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and Himself hath done it; I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

<named id="16"/>16 O L-rd, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.

<named id="17"/>17 Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.

<named id="18"/>18 For the nether-world cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.

<named id="19"/>19 The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.

<named id="20"/>20 HaShem is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of HaShem.

<named id="21"/>21 And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'

<named id="22"/>22 And Hezekiah said. 'What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of HaShem?'

== See also ==
* [[Yeshayahu 37|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yeshayahu 38 Commentaries]]
* [[Yeshayahu 39|Next Chapter]]

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