{"id":1557,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa38\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:09:29","slug":"isa38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa38\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 38<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done <span class=\"add\">that which is<\/span> good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 will add unto thy days fifteen years.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And this <span class=\"add\">shall be<\/span> a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>I said, I shall not see the LORD, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd\u2019s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> to night wilt thou make an end of me.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>I reckoned till morning, <span class=\"add\">that,<\/span> as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> to night wilt thou make an end of me.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Like a crane <span class=\"add\">or<\/span> a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail <span class=\"add\">with looking<\/span> upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done <span class=\"add\">it:<\/span> I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>O Lord, by these <span class=\"add\">things men<\/span> live, and in all these <span class=\"add\">things is<\/span> the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul <span class=\"add\">delivered it<\/span> from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For the grave cannot praise thee, death can <span class=\"add\">not<\/span> celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I <span class=\"add\">do<\/span> this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>The LORD <span class=\"add\">was ready<\/span> to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay <span class=\"add\">it<\/span> for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Hezekiah also had said, What <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD? <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>Isaiah Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa26\">26<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa27\">27<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa28\">28<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa29\">29<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa30\">30<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa31\">31<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa32\">32<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa33\">33<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa34\">34<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa35\">35<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa36\">36<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa37\">37<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa38\">38<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa39\">39<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa40\">40<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa41\">41<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa42\">42<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa43\">43<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa44\">44<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa45\">45<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa46\">46<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa47\">47<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa48\">48<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa49\">49<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa50\">50<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa51\">51<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa52\">52<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa53\">53<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa54\">54<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa55\">55<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa56\">56<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa57\">57<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa58\">58<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa59\">59<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa60\">60<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa61\">61<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa62\">62<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa63\">63<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa64\">64<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa65\">65<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/isa66\">66<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38 1\u00a0In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 2\u00a0Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3\u00a0And said, Remember now, O LORD, 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. 4\u00a0Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, 5\u00a0Go, 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 will add unto thy days fifteen years. 6\u00a0And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. 7\u00a0And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; 8\u00a0Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. 9\u00a0The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10\u00a0I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11\u00a0I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12\u00a0Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-isaiah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}