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Isaiah 38 Bible in Basic English
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1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.
1 EN aquellos días cayó Ezechîas enfermo para morir. Y vino á él Isaías profeta, hijo de Amoz, y díjole: Jehová dice así: Ordena tu casa, porque tú morirás, y no vivirás.
1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”
2 And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying,
2 Entonces volvió Ezechîas su rostro á la pared, é hizo oración á Jehová,
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,
3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
3 Y dijo: Oh Jehová, ruégote te acuerdes ahora que he andado delante de ti en verdad y con íntegro corazón, y que he hecho lo que ha sido agradable delante de tus ojos. Y lloró Ezechîas con gran lloro.
3 and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,
4 Entonces fué palabra de Jehová á Isaías, diciendo:
4 Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,
5 Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.
5 Ve, y di á Ezechîas: Jehová Dios de David tu padre dice así: Tu oración he oído, y visto tus lágrimas: he aquí que yo añado á tus días quince años.
5 “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
6 And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
6 Y te libraré, y á esta ciudad, de mano del rey de Asiria; y á esta ciudad ampararé.
6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.
7 And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:
7 Y esto te será señal de parte de Jehová, que Jehová hará esto que ha dicho:
7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
8 See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.
8 He aquí que yo vuelvo atrás la sombra de los grados, que ha descendido en el reloj de Achâz por el sol, diez grados. Y el sol fué tornado diez grados atrás, por los cuales había ya descendido.
8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.
9 The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.
9 Escritura de Ezechîas rey de Judá, de cuando enfermó y sanó de su enfermedad.
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness:
10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
10 Yo dije: En el medio de mis días iré á las puertas del sepulcro: privado soy del resto de mis años.
10 I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
11 Dije: No veré á JAH, á JAH en la tierra de los que viven: ya no veré más hombre con los moradores del mundo.
11 I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
12 Mi morada ha sido movida y traspasada de mí, como tienda de pastor. Como el tejedor corté mi vida; cortaráme con la enfermedad; me consumirás entre el día y la noche.
12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
13 Contaba yo hasta la mañana. Como un león molió todos mis huesos: de la mañana á la noche me acabarás.
13 I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
14 Como la grulla y como la golondrina me quejaba; gemía como la paloma: alzaba en alto mis ojos: Jehová, violencia padezco; confórtame.
14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.
15 ¿Qué diré? El que me lo dijo, él mismo lo ha hecho. Andaré recapacitando en la amargura de mi alma todos los años de mi vida.
15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
16 Oh Señor, sobre ellos vivirán [tus piedades], y á todos [diré consistir] en ellas la vida de mi espíritu; pues tú me restablecerás, y me harás que viva.
16 Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live.
17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
17 He aquí amargura grande me [sobrevino] en la paz: mas á ti plugo librar mi vida del hoyo de corrupción: porque echaste tras tus espaldas todos mis pecados.
17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
18 Porque el sepulcro no te celebrará, ni te alabará la muerte; ni los que descienden al hoyo esperarán tu verdad.
18 For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.
19 El que vive, el que vive, éste te confesará, como yo hoy: el padre hará notoria tu verdad á los hijos.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
20 O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.
20 Jehová para salvarme; por tanto cantaremos nuestros salmos en la casa de Jehová todos los días de nuestra vida.
20 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
21 And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.
21 Y había dicho Isaías: Tomen masa de higos, y pónganla en la llaga, y sanará.
21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?
22 Había asimismo dicho Ezechîas: ¿Qué señal tendré de que he de subir á la casa de Jehová?
22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
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Hezekiah
A great reformer who trusted God and saw Jerusalem delivered from Assyria.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chron. 29-32; Isa. 36-39; Matt. 1:9-10
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Chronicles 32:24; Isaiah 38:1–8; 2 Kings 20:1–11; 2 Samuel 17:23; Jonah 3:10
- 2 Matthew 6:6; Psalm 50:15; 1 Kings 8:30; Psalm 91:15
- 3 Hebrews 5:7; Hebrews 6:10; Psalm 18:20–27; Nehemiah 13:14; 2 Chronicles 31:20–21
- 5 1 John 5:14–15; Psalm 34:5–6; Revelation 7:17; Luke 1:13; Psalm 147:3
- 6 Isaiah 37:35; Isaiah 31:4–5; Isaiah 12:6; 2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Chronicles 32:22
- 7 Isaiah 37:30; Judges 6:37–39; 2 Kings 20:8–21; Judges 6:17–22; Isaiah 7:11–14
- 8 2 Kings 20:9–11; Joshua 10:12–14; Matthew 16:1; 2 Chronicles 32:24; 2 Chronicles 32:31
- 9 Judges 5:1–31; Job 5:18; Psalm 18:1; Isaiah 12:1–6; Jonah 2:1–9
- 10 2 Corinthians 1:9; Psalm 102:24; Job 7:7; Psalm 107:18; Isaiah 38:1
- 11 Psalm 27:13; Psalm 116:8–9; Ecclesiastes 9:5–6; Psalm 6:4–5; Job 35:14–15
- 12 2 Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 1:12; Psalm 73:14; Isaiah 13:20; James 4:14
- 13 Psalm 51:8; Daniel 6:24; 1 Kings 13:24–26; Psalm 39:10; 1 Corinthians 11:30–32
- 14 Isaiah 59:11; Psalm 69:3; Job 30:29; Ezekiel 7:16; Psalm 123:1–4
- 15 Job 7:11; 1 Kings 21:27; Job 10:1; Job 21:25; 2 Kings 4:27
- 16 Psalm 119:25; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Hebrews 12:10–11; Matthew 4:4; Job 33:19–28
- 17 Isaiah 43:25; Micah 7:18–19; Jonah 2:6; Psalm 30:3; Jeremiah 31:34
- 18 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Psalm 30:9; Psalm 6:5; Psalm 88:10–11; Psalm 115:17–18
- 19 Deuteronomy 6:7; Psalm 119:175; Deuteronomy 4:9; Psalm 78:3–6; Deuteronomy 11:19
- 20 Psalm 116:2; Psalm 145:2; Psalm 150:4; Psalm 33:2; Psalm 51:15
- 21 2 Kings 20:7–8; John 9:6; Mark 7:33
- 22 2 Kings 20:8; John 5:14; Psalm 118:18–19; Psalm 84:1–2; Psalm 84:10–12
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