Isaiah 38:9–20
9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
10 fI said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to gthe gates of the grave:
I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see hthe Lord, even hthe Lord, iin the land of the living:
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me kas a shepherd’s tent:
I have cut off llike a weaver my life: mhe will cut me off ||with pining sickness:
nFrom day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13 I reckoned ntill morning, that, oas a lion, so will he break all my bones:
nFrom day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14 Like pa crane or pa swallow, so did I qchatter:
sMine eyes fail with looking upward:
O Lord, I am oppressed; ||tundertake for me.
15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:
I shall ugo softly all my years vin the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, wby these things men live,
And in all these things is the life of my spirit:
So wilt thou recover me, and wmake me to live.
17 Behold, ||for peace I had great bitterness:
But †thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:
For xthou hast cast all my sins ybehind thy back.
18 For zthe grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:
aThey that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 bThe living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:
cThe father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20 The Lord was ready to save me:
Therefore we will sing my songs to dthe stringed instruments
All the days of our life in the house of the Lord.