Isaias
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904
2 And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,
3 And said, Ah LORD, remember, I pray thee, how that I have walked before thee in truth and with whole heart, and have done that which is good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah wept, a great weeping.
4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go, 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 am adding to thy days fifteen years.
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the grasp of the king of Assyria, and I will protect this city.
7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from the Lord, that the LORD will do this thing which he hath spoken
8 Behold, I am turning the shadow of the steps, which it has gone down on the steps. of Ahaz by the sun, ten steps back- ward. And the sun returned ten steps, on the steps whereon it was gone down.
9 Α writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick, and come to life from his sickness:
10 I said, In the stillness of my days I shall go into the gates of hell; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see Jah, Jab in the land of the living; Ι shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of ceasing.
12 My habitation is plucked up, and carried away from me like a ’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he ’ cutteth me off from the thrum; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
13 I quieted myself till morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones; from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
14 Like a swift, a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan like a dove; mine eyes failed towards the height; LORD, I am oppressed; be thou surety for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it; I shall go softly all my years, because of the bitterness of ’my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things men live, and wholly in them is the life of my spirit; and thou wilt recover me, and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace it was bitter to me, bitter; and thou hast ’ loved my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For hell cannot give thee thanks, death praise thee; they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall give thee thanks, as I do this day; the father shall. make the sons to know concerning thy truth.
20 The LORD (was ready) to save me; and we will play on my stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
21 And Isaiah said, They shall take a cake of figs, and apply it to the boil, and he shall live.
22 And Hezekiah said, What sign is there, that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? ’