Isaiah 38:9–20

⁹The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

^10fI 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.

¹¹I 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.

¹²Mine 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.

¹³I 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.

¹⁴Like ^pa crane or ^pa swallow, so did I ^qchatter:

I did ^qrmourn as a dove:

^sMine eyes fail with looking upward:

O Lord, I am oppressed; ^tundertake for me.

¹⁵What 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.

¹⁶O 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.

¹⁷Behold, 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.

¹⁸For ^zthe grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:

^aThey that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

^19bThe living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:

^cThe father to the children shall make known thy truth.

²⁰The 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.