{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/isaiah/38","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:58:23.747Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":38,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":37,"nextChapter":39,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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.'"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And this is to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":" — 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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The living, the living, he doth confess Thee."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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.'"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And Isaiah saith, 'Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And Hezekiah saith, 'What is the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 38 (YLT)","markdown":"[Isaiah 38](https://primebible.com/ylt/isaiah/38)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/isaiah/38 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}