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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Isaiah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell Hezekiah, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sign to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what he has promised: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;In the prime of my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">must I go through the gates of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">and be robbed of the rest of my years?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will not again see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">in the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">no longer will I look on my fellow man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">or be with those who now dwell in this world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like a shepherd&#8217;s tent my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">has been pulled down and taken from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">and he has cut me off from the loom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I waited patiently till dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">but like a lion he broke all my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I cried like a swift or thrush,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I moaned like a mourning dove.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But what can I say?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">I will walk humbly all my years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">because of this anguish of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lord, by such things people live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and my spirit finds life in them too.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">You restored me to health</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and let me live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely it was for my benefit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">that I suffered such anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">In your love you kept me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">from the pit of destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">you have put all my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">behind your back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the grave cannot praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">death cannot sing your praise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">those who go down to the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">cannot hope for your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The living, the living&#8212;they praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">as I am doing today;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">parents tell their children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">about your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">and we will sing with stringed instruments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">all the days of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaiah had said, &#8220;Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah had asked, &#8220;What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch39" data-usfm="ISA.39">
         <div class="label">39</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Envoys From Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses&#8212;the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil&#8212;his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.39.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, &#8220;What did those men say, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="content">&#8220;From a distant land,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. &#8220;They came to me from Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The prophet asked, &#8220;What did they see in your palace?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="content">&#8220;They saw everything in my palace,&#8221; Hezekiah said. &#8220;There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, &#8220;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty: </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> you have spoken is good,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. For he thought, &#8220;There will be peace and security in my lifetime.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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