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1About this time, Hezekiah got sick and was almost dead. So I went in and told him, “The Lord says you won't ever get well. You are going to die, and so you had better start doing what needs to be done.”
2Hezekiah turned toward the wall and prayed,
3“Don't forget that I have been faithful to you, Lord . I have obeyed you with all my heart, and I do whatever you say is right.” After this, he cried hard.
4Then the Lord sent me
5with this message for Hezekiah:
Then the shadow went back ten steps.
9This is what Hezekiah wrote after he got well:
10I thought I would die
during my best years
and stay as a prisoner forever
in the world of the dead.
11I thought I would never again
see you, my Lord ,
or any of the people
who live on this earth.
12My life was taken from me
like the tent that a shepherd
pulls up and moves.
You cut me off like thread
from a weaver's loom;
you make a wreck of me
day and night.
13Until morning came, I thought
you would crush my bones
just like a hungry lion;
both night and day
you make a wreck of me.
14I cry like a swallow;
I mourn like a dove.
My eyes are red
from looking to you, Lord .
I am in terrible trouble.
Please come and help me.
15There's nothing I can say
in answer to you,
since you are the one
who has done this to me.
My life has turned sour;
I will limp until I die.
16Your words and your deeds
bring life to everyone,
including me.
Please make me healthy
and strong again.
17It was for my own good
that I had such hard times.
But your love protected me
from doom in the deep pit,
and you turned your eyes
away from my sins.
18No one in the world of the dead[#Si 17.27; Ba 2.17.]
can thank you or praise you;
none of those in the deep pit
can hope for you
to show them
how faithful you are.
19Only the living can thank you,
as I am doing today.
Each generation tells the next
about your faithfulness.
20You, Lord , will save me,
and every day that we live
we will sing in your temple
to the music
of stringed instruments.
21I had told King Hezekiah's servants to put some mashed figs on the king's open sore, and he would get well.
22Then Hezekiah asked for proof that he would again worship in the Lord 's temple.