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Isaiah 38

22 aligned verses; 22 with wording or punctuation differences .

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In 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. '
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.
And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah ,
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD ,
and 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 .
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 that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore .
And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,
Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
Go, 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 ,
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 .
and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
And this `is' to thee the sign from Jehovah , that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken .
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD , that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken ;
Lo , 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.
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.
A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick , when he reviveth from his sickness:
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
` 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.
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.
I 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.
I 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.
My 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.
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent : I have cut off like a weaver my life : he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones , From day unto night Thou dost end me.
I reckoned till morning , that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones : from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
As 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 .
Like a crane or a swallow , so did I chatter : I did mourn as a dove : mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD , I am oppressed; undertake for me.
-- 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.
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Lord, 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 ,
O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit : so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live .
Lo , 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.
Behold , for peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption : for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back .
For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee , Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee : they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee , as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth .
Like 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 . '
The LORD was ready 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 .
And Isaiah saith , ` Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer , and he liveth . '
For Isaiah had said , Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil , and he shall recover .
And Hezekiah saith , ` What ` is ' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'
Hezekiah also had said , What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

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