# Isaiah 38

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] 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.’” [2] Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, [3] saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. [4] And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, saying, [5] “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. [6] And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city. [7] This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: [8] 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. [9] This is a writing by Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: [10] 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.” [11] 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. [12] 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. [13] I composed myself until the morning.
Like a lion He breaks all my bones;
from day until night You make an end of me. [14] 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.” [15] 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. [16] 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. [17] 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. [18] For Sheol cannot thank You;
Death cannot praise You.
Those who descend to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness. [19] The living, only the living, can thank You,
as I do today;
fathers will tell their children
about Your faithfulness. [20] The LORD will save me;
we will play songs on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
in the house of the LORD. [21] Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.” [22] And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

## Places in this chapter

- **Assyria** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/assyria

## Each verse

- Isaiah 38:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/1
- Isaiah 38:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/2
- Isaiah 38:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/3
- Isaiah 38:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/4
- Isaiah 38:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/5
- Isaiah 38:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/6
- Isaiah 38:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/7
- Isaiah 38:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/8
- Isaiah 38:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/9
- Isaiah 38:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/10
- Isaiah 38:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/11
- Isaiah 38:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/12
- Isaiah 38:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/13
- Isaiah 38:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/14
- Isaiah 38:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/15
- Isaiah 38:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/16
- Isaiah 38:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/17
- Isaiah 38:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/18
- Isaiah 38:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/19
- Isaiah 38:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/20
- Isaiah 38:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/21
- Isaiah 38:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/38/22