Isaiah 38:9-20

21st Century King James Version

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

¹⁰ I said, “In the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave; I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

¹¹ I said, “I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

¹² Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; I have cut off like a weaver my life. He will cut me off with pining sickness; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.

¹³ I reckoned till morning that, as a lion, so will He break all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.”

¹⁴ Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me!

¹⁵ What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and Himself hath done it. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; so wilt Thou recover me and make me to live.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption, for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.

¹⁸ For the grave cannot praise Thee, death can not celebrate Thee; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.

¹⁹ The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.

²⁰ The Lord was ready to save me; therefore we will sing my songs with the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.