Isaiah 38:9-20 - ESV Online

ISAIAH 38:9-20

« Isaiah 37 | Isaiah 38 | Isaiah 39 »

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

I said, In the middle of my days

I must depart;

I am consigned to the gates of Sheol

for the rest of my years. 11

I said, I shall not see the Lord,

the Lord in the land of the living;

I shall look on man no more

among the inhabitants of the world. 12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me

like a shepherd’s tent;

like a weaver I have rolled up my life;

he cuts me off from the loom;

from day to night you bring me to an end; 13

I calmed myself until morning;

like a lion he breaks all my bones;

from day to night you bring me to an end.
14

Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;

I moan like a dove.

My eyes are weary with looking upward.

O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety! 15

What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,

and he himself has done it.

I walk slowly all my years

because of the bitterness of my soul.
16

O Lord, by these things men live,

and in all these is the life of my spirit.

Oh restore me to health and make me live! 17

Behold, it was for my welfare

that I had great bitterness;

but in love you have delivered my life

from the pit of destruction,

for you have cast all my sins

behind your back. 18

For Sheol does not thank you;

death does not praise you;

those who go down to the pit do not hope

for your faithfulness. 19

The living, the living, he thanks you,

as I do this day;

the father makes known to the children

your faithfulness.
20

The Lord will save me,

and we will play my music on stringed instruments

all the days of our lives,

at the house of the Lord.

ESV® Permanent Text Edition (2016). The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers.