| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 1In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'" | 1During that time, Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. Then Amoz's son Isaiah the prophet came to him and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your house in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.'" |
| 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, | 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD. |
| 3and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. | 3"Please, LORD," he said, "Remember how I have walked before you faithfully and with a true heart, and I have done what pleases you." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
| 4Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, | 4Then this message from the LORD came to Isaiah: |
| 5"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. | 5"Go tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David has to say: "I've heard your prayer and I've seen your tears; so I will add fifteen years to your life. |
| 6"I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."' | 6I'll save you and this city from the king of Assyria, and I'll defend this city, for my own sake and for my servant David's sake. |
| 7"This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He has spoken: | 7This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will carry out this thing he has promised: |
| 8"Behold, I will cause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps." So the sun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down. | 8Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards."'" Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down. |
| 9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: | 9 A composition by King Hezekiah of Judah, following his illness and recovery: |
| 10I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years." | 10I said, "Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!" |
| 11I said, "I will not see the LORD, The LORD in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world. | 11I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave. |
| 12"Like a shepherd's tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. | 12My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom— day and night you make an end of me. |
| 13"I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion-- so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me. | 13I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones— day and night you make an end of me. |
| 14"Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. | 14Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me! |
| 15"What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. | 15What can I say, so I tell myself, since he has done this to me? I will walk slowly all my years because of my soul's anguish. |
| 16"O Lord, by these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; O restore me to health and let me live! | 16"My Lord is against them, yet they live, and among all of them who live is his spirit. Now you have restored me to health, so let me live! |
| 17"Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. | 17Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back. |
| 18"For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. | 18For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. |
| 19"It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness. | 19The living—yes the living—they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness. |
| 20"The LORD will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the LORD." | 20The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on strings all the days of our lives in the LORD's Temple. |
| 21Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover." | 21Now Isaiah had said, "Let them prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover." |
| 22Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?" | 22Hezekiah also had asked, "What will be the sign for me to go up to the LORD's Temple?" |
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