Isaiah 38 Free Bible Version
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1 About this time Hezekiah fell very sick and was about to die. The prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your affairs in order, because you are going to die. You won't recover.”
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.
2 When Hezekiah heard this, he went to pray privately to the Lord, saying
2 Entonces volvió Ezechîas su rostro á la pared, é hizo oración á Jehová,
3 “Please remember Lord how I have followed you faithfully with all my heart. I have done what is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah cried and cried.
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.
4 Then the Lord sent a message to Isaiah, saying,
4 Entonces fué palabra de Jehová á Isaías, diciendo:
5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, This is what the Lord, the God of your forefather David, says: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your 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.
6 I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
6 Y te libraré, y á esta ciudad, de mano del rey de Asiria; y á esta ciudad ampararé.
7 This is the sign from the Lord to you that the Lord will do what he promised:
7 Y esto te será señal de parte de Jehová, que Jehová hará esto que ha dicho:
8 Look, I will make the shadow made by the sun go back the ten steps that it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz. So the sun went back the ten steps that it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.”
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.
9 This is what Hezekiah, king of Judah, wrote after he recovered from his sickness:
9 Escritura de Ezechîas rey de Judá, de cuando enfermó y sanó de su enfermedad.
10 I said to myself, “Do I have to go to my death just as my life is going well? Why can't I count on the rest of my years?”
10 Yo dije: En el medio de mis días iré á las puertas del sepulcro: privado soy del resto de mis años.
11 I said, “I will never again see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living. I won't see anyone else again, none of the inhabitants of this 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.
12 Like a shepherd's tent, the place where I live has been pulled up and taken away from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up the cloth of my life and cut it from the loom. Day and night you bring me to an end.
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.
13 I lie there patiently until the morning, but I feel like there's a lion breaking every bone in my body. Day and night you bring me to an end.
13 Contaba yo hasta la mañana. Como un león molió todos mis huesos: de la mañana á la noche me acabarás.
14 I scream like a swift or a songbird, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow dim as I look heavenwards. I'm being attacked, Lord, please come and support me!
14 Como la grulla y como la golondrina me quejaba; gemía como la paloma: alzaba en alto mis ojos: Jehová, violencia padezco; confórtame.
15 Yet what can I say? He told me what was going to happen, and he himself did it. I will walk quietly for the rest of my life because of the painful experience I went through.
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.
16 Lord, we live by what you say and do, and I find life in all of this. You have given me back my health and allowed me to live.
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.
17 It was definitely for my own good I went through this bitter experience. You in your love saved me from the pit of destruction and you have forgiven all my sins.
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.
18 Those in the grave cannot praise you, the dead cannot praise you. Those who go down into the pit can no longer hope in your faithfulness.
18 Porque el sepulcro no te celebrará, ni te alabará la muerte; ni los que descienden al hoyo esperarán tu verdad.
19 It's only the living who can praise you as I'm doing today. Parents explain to their children how you can be trusted.
19 El que vive, el que vive, éste te confesará, como yo hoy: el padre hará notoria tu verdad á los hijos.
20 The Lord saved me! We will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the Lord's Temple.”
20 Jehová para salvarme; por tanto cantaremos nuestros salmos en la casa de Jehová todos los días de nuestra vida.
21 Isaiah had said, “Prepare a dressing of figs and spread it on the skin sores so he may recover.”
21 Y había dicho Isaías: Tomen masa de higos, y pónganla en la llaga, y sanará.
22 Hezekiah had asked, “What is the sign to confirm that I will go to the Lord's Temple?”
22 Había asimismo dicho Ezechîas: ¿Qué señal tendré de que he de subir á la casa de Jehová?
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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)
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- 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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