Verse 5
Isaiah 38:5
World English Bible, British Edition
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“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The LORD, the God (Elohim) of David your father, says,
“I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הָל֞וֹךְ וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶל חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ כֹּֽה אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵי֙ דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֔י/ךָ שָׁמַ֨עְתִּי֙ אֶת תְּפִלָּתֶ֔/ךָ רָאִ֖יתִי אֶת דִּמְעָתֶ֑/ךָ הִנְ/נִי֙ יוֹסִ֣ף עַל יָמֶ֔י/ךָ חֲמֵ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה שָׁנָֽה
English Translation
Go and say to Hezekiah, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years."
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Chapter 38 Context
1
In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz, came to him, an...
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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
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and said, “Remember now, the LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before
you in truth and with a perfe...
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Then the LORD’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
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5
“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The LORD, the God (Elohim) of David your father, says,
“I have heard your p...
6
I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria,
and I will defend this city...
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7
This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this
thing that he has spoken.
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8
Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on
the sundial of Ahaz with the...
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9
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick,
and had recovered of his sickness:
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10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.
I am deprived of the residue of my y...
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11
I said, “I won’t see the LORD,
The LORD in the land of the living.
I will see man no more with the i...
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12
My dwelling is removed,
and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life...
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13
I waited patiently until morning.
He breaks all my bones like a lion.
From day even to night you wil...
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14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane.
I moaned like a dove.
My eyes weaken looking upward.
Lord, I...
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15
What will I say?
He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.
I will walk carefully all my yea...
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16
Lord, men live by these things;
and my spirit finds life in all of them.
You restore me, and cause m...
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17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish,
but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of...
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18
For Sheol can’t praise you.
Death can’t celebrate you.
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for...
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19
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.
The father shall make known your truth t...
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20
The LORD will save me.
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our...
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21
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay
it for a poultice on the boil, and he sh...
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22
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the
LORD’s house?”
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