| New King James Version | King James Bible |
| 1In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ” | 1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. |
| 2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, | 2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, |
| 3and said, “Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. | 3And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. |
| 4And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, | 4Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, |
| 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; surely I will add to your days fifteen years. | 5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. |
| 6I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.” ’ | 6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. |
| 7And this is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which He has spoken: | 7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; |
| 8Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down. | 8Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. |
| 9This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: | 9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: |
| 10I said, “In the prime of my life I shall go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the remainder of my years.” | 10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. |
| 11I said, “I shall not see YAH, The LORD in the land of the living; I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world. | 11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. |
| 12My life span is gone, Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; From day until night You make an end of me. | 12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
| 13I have considered until morning— Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me. | 13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
| 14Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; Undertake for me! | 14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. |
| 15“What shall I say? He has both spoken to me, And He Himself has done it. I shall walk carefully all my years In the bitterness of my soul. | 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 16O Lord, by these things men live; And in all these things is the life of my spirit; So You will restore me and make me live. | 16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. |
| 17Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. | 17Behold, for 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. |
| 18For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth. | 18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. |
| 19The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I do this day; The father shall make known Your truth to the children. | 19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. |
| 20“The LORD was ready to save me; Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life, in the house of the LORD.” | 20The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. |
| 21Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.” | 21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
| 22And Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?” | 22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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