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SEPTEMBER 23
In those days Hezekiah was sick and And He Himself has done it.
38 near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the I shall walk carefully all my years
son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, In the bitterness of my soul.
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Set your house in order, 16 O Lord, by these things men live;
for you shall die and not live.’ ” And in all these things is the life of my
2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the spirit;
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wall, and prayed to the LORD, and said, “Re- So You will restore me and make me
member now, O LORD, I pray, how I have live.
walked before You in truth and with a loyal 17 Indeed it was for my own peace
heart, and have done what is good in Your That I had great bitterness;
sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. But You have lovingly delivered my
4 And the word of the LORD came to Isaiah, soul from the pit of corruption,
saying, “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the For You have cast all my sins behind
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LORD, the God of David your father: “I have Your back.
heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; 18 For Sheol cannot thank You,
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surely I will add to your days fifteen years. I Death cannot praise You;
will deliver you and this city from the hand of Those who go down to the pit cannot
the king of Assyria, and I will defend this hope for Your truth.
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city.” ’ And this is the sign to you from the 19 The living, the living man, he shall
LORD, that the LORD will do this thing which praise You,
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He has spoken: Behold, I will bring the shad- As I do this day;
ow on the sundial, which has gone down with The father shall make known Your
the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees truth to the children.
backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on 20 “The LORD was ready to save me;
the dial by which it had gone down.
9 This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Ju- Therefore we will sing my songs with
stringed instruments
dah, when he had been sick and had recov- All the days of our life, in the house of
ered from his sickness:
the LORD.”
10 I said, 21
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a
“In the prime of my life lump of figs, and apply it as a poultice on the
I shall go to the gates of Sheol; boil, and he shall recover.”
I am deprived of the remainder of my 22 And Hezekiah had said, “What is the sign
years.”
11 I said, that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”
“I shall not see YAH, Psalm 109:14–20
The LORD in the land of the living; 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be
I shall observe man no more among remembered before the LORD,
the inhabitants of the world.
12 My life span is gone, And let not the sin of his mother be
blotted out.
Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent; 15 Let them be continually before the LORD,
I have cut off my life like a weaver. That He may cut off the memory of
He cuts me off from the loom; them from the earth;
From day until night You make an end 16 Because he did not remember to show
of me.
13 I have considered until morning— mercy,
Like a lion, But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the broken in
So He breaks all my bones; heart.
From day until night You make an end 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come to
of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I him;
chattered; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it
be far from him.
I mourned like a dove; 18 As he clothed himself with cursing as
My eyes fail from looking upward. with his garment,
O LORD, I am oppressed;
Undertake for me! So let it enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
15 “What shall I say? 19 Let it be to him like the garment which
He has both spoken to me, covers him,

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