Isaiah 38
1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah, 3and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, 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. 4Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, 5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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. 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 shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken: 8behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward:
O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
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.
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.