Isaiah 第38章
Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery
138:1 For ver. 1-8, see 2 Kgs. 20:1-6, 9-11In those days Hezekiah became 38:1 2 Chr. 32:24sick and was at the point of death. And 38:1 See ch. 1:1Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”38:1 Or live; also verses 9, 21
2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
3and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how 38:3 2 Kgs. 18:5, 6I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:
5“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add 38:5 2 Kgs. 18:2, 13fifteen years to your life.38:5 Hebrew to your days
7“This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:
838:8 [2 Kgs. 20:9, 10]Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.38:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
9A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
11I said, I shall not see the Lord,
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
12My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
38:12 [2 Cor. 5:1] like a shepherd’s tent;
38:12 Job 6:9he cuts me off from the loom;
like a lion 38:13 [Ps. 38:3]he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.
38:14 ch. 59:11I moan like a dove.
38:14 Ps. 69:3My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; 38:14 Ps. 119:122; [Ps. 86:17; Heb. 7:22]be my pledge of safety!
15What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
38:15 1 Kgs. 21:27I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
1738:17 Ps. 119:67, 75Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
38:17 [Ps. 103:12; Mic. 7:19]but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
38:17 [Ps. 103:12; Mic. 7:19]for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
1838:18 Ps. 88:10-12; 115:17; [Eccles. 9:10]For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
your faithfulness.
20The Lord will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
38:20 2 Kgs. 20:5at the house of the Lord.
2138:21 2 Kgs. 20:7, 8Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”
22Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?”
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