Isaiah 3838IsaiahHezekiah and AssyriaYoung’s Literal Translation

Young’s Literal TranslationBerean Standard Bible

1. Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

   (2 Kings 20:1–11; 2 Chronicles 32:24–31)

2. 1YLTIn those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'BSBBSB: In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
3. 2YLTAnd Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,BSBBSB: Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
4. 3YLTand saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth — a great weeping.BSBBSB: saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
5. 4YLTAnd a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,BSBBSB: And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying,
6. 5YLTGo, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,BSBBSB: “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
7. 6YLTand out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.BSBBSB: And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
8. 7YLTAnd this is to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.BSBBSB: This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
9. 8YLTLo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.BSBBSB: I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

10. Hezekiah’s Song of Thanksgiving

11. 9YLTA writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:BSBBSB: This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
12. 10YLT'I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.BSBBSB: I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
13. 11YLTI said, I do not see Jah — Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.BSBBSB: I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
14. 12YLTMy sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.BSBBSB: My dwelling has been picked 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; from day until night You make an end of me.
15. 13YLTI have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.BSBBSB: I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
16. 14YLTAs a crane — a swallow — so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.BSBBSB: I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
17. 15YLT— What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.BSBBSB: What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
18. 16YLTLord, by these do men live, And by all in them is the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,BSBBSB: O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
19. 17YLTLo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.BSBBSB: Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
20. 18YLTFor Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.BSBBSB: For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
21. 19YLTThe living, the living, he doth confess Thee.BSBBSB: The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
22. 20YLTLike myself to-day — a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah — to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'BSBBSB: The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
23. 21YLTAnd Isaiah saith, 'Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'BSBBSB: Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
24. 22YLTAnd Hezekiah saith, 'What is the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'BSBBSB: And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

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