Isaiah 38 (NET)

Isaiah 38:1¹In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:24Isa 38:1-82 Kgs 20:1-112 Sam 17:23Jonah 3:10Acts 9:37Isa 37:21Phil 2:27-30Eccl 9:10Isa 1:1

Isaiah 38:2²Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:61 Kgs 8:30Ps 50:15Ps 91:15

Isaiah 38:3³“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 5:7Heb 6:10Ps 18:20-27Neh 13:142 Chr 31:20-212 Cor 1:12Deut 6:18John 1:47Neh 13:22Neh 5:19

Isaiah 38:4⁴The Lord’ s message came to Isaiah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Isaiah 38:5⁵“Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:14-15Ps 34:5-6Rev 7:17Luke 1:13Ps 147:3Ps 56:82 Kgs 19:202 Cor 7:6Matt 22:32Ps 116:15

Isaiah 38:6⁶I will also rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:35Isa 12:6Isa 31:4-52 Chr 32:222 Tim 4:17

Isaiah 38:7⁷Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:30Judg 6:37-392 Kgs 20:8-21Isa 7:11-14Judg 6:17-22Gen 9:13Isa 38:22

Isaiah 38:8⁸Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:9-11Josh 10:12-142 Chr 32:24Matt 16:12 Chr 32:31

Isaiah 38:9⁹This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:1-102 Chr 29:30Deut 32:39Exod 15:1-21Hos 6:1-2Isa 12:1-6Job 5:18Jonah 2:1-9Judg 5:1-31Ps 116:1-4

Isaiah 38:10¹⁰“I thought, ‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 1:9Ps 102:24Job 7:7Ps 107:18Isa 38:1Job 17:11-16Job 6:11

Isaiah 38:11¹¹“I thought, ‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 27:13Ps 116:8-9Eccl 9:5-6Job 35:14-15Ps 31:22Ps 6:4-5

Isaiah 38:12¹²My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me as a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:1Heb 1:12Ps 73:142 Cor 5:42 Pet 1:13-14Isa 1:8Isa 13:20Jas 4:14Job 14:2Job 17:1

Isaiah 38:13¹³I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 6:24Ps 51:81 Cor 11:30-321 Kgs 13:24-26Hos 5:14Job 10:16-17Job 16:12-14Ps 39:10Ps 50:221 Kgs 20:36

Isaiah 38:14¹⁴Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:11Ps 69:3Ezek 7:16Job 30:29Nah 2:7Ps 119:122-123Ps 123:1-4Job 17:3Lam 4:17Ps 102:4-7

Isaiah 38:15¹⁵What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:27Job 7:11Job 10:11 Sam 1:102 Kgs 4:27Ezra 9:10Job 21:25John 12:27Josh 7:8Ps 39:9-10

Isaiah 38:16¹⁶O Lord, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 11:32Heb 12:10-11Matt 4:4Ps 119:25Deut 8:3Isa 64:5Job 33:19-282 Cor 4:17Ps 71:20

Isaiah 38:17¹⁷“Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:25Jonah 2:6Mic 7:18-19Jer 31:34Ps 30:3Ps 86:13Job 3:25-26Ps 30:6-7Ps 40:2Ps 85:2

Isaiah 38:18¹⁸Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 9:10Ps 30:9Ps 6:5Ps 115:17-18Ps 88:10-11Num 16:33Luke 16:26-31Matt 25:46Matt 8:12Prov 14:32

Isaiah 38:19¹⁹The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 6:7Ps 119:175Deut 4:9Ps 78:3-6Deut 11:19Exod 12:26-27Exod 13:14-15Gen 18:19Joel 1:3Josh 4:21-22

Isaiah 38:20²⁰The Lord is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the Lord ’s temple.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 116:2Ps 145:2Ps 150:4Hab 3:19Ps 116:17-19Ps 27:5-6Ps 30:11-12Ps 33:2Ps 51:15Ps 66:13-15

Isaiah 38:21²¹(Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:7-8John 9:6Mark 7:33

Isaiah 38:22²²Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord ’s temple?”)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:8John 5:14Ps 118:18-19Ps 122:1Ps 42:1-2Ps 84:1-2Ps 84:10-12