English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 38, verse 30 in Hcsb Version

Isaiah 38 : 1 (HCSB)

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"

Isaiah 38 : 2 (HCSB)

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.

Isaiah 38 : 3 (HCSB)

He said, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38 : 4 (HCSB)

Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:

Isaiah 38 : 5 (HCSB)

"Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.

Isaiah 38 : 6 (HCSB)

And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.

Isaiah 38 : 7 (HCSB)

This is the sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do what He has promised:

Isaiah 38 : 8 (HCSB)

I am going to make the sun's shadow that goes down on Ahaz's stairway return by 10 steps." So the sun's shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.

Isaiah 38 : 9 (HCSB)

A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

Isaiah 38 : 10 (HCSB)

I said: In the prime of my life I must go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years.

Isaiah 38 : 11 (HCSB)

I said: I will never see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longer with the inhabitants of what is passing away.

Isaiah 38 : 12 (HCSB)

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. You make an end of me from day until night.

Isaiah 38 : 13 (HCSB)

I thought until the morning: He will break all my bones like a lion; You make an end of me day and night.

Isaiah 38 : 14 (HCSB)

I chirp like a swallow *or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

Isaiah 38 : 15 (HCSB)

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it. I walk along slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul,

Isaiah 38 : 16 (HCSB)

Lord, because of these *promises people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well; You have restored me to health and let me live.

Isaiah 38 : 17 (HCSB)

Indeed, it was for *my own welfare that I had such great bitterness; but Your love has delivered me from the Pit of destruction, for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 38 : 18 (HCSB)

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38 : 19 (HCSB)

The living, only the living can thank You, as I do today; a father will make Your faithfulness known to children

Isaiah 38 : 20 (HCSB)

The LORD will save me; we will play stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 38 : 21 (HCSB)

Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs and apply it to his infected skin, so that he may recover."

Isaiah 38 : 22 (HCSB)

And Hezekiah had asked, "What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD's temple?"