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Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you[a] faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,[b] and how I have carried out your will.”[c] Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.[d]

The Lord’s message came to Isaiah,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
  2. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”
  3. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
  4. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, “Remember, Lord, how I have walked(A) before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion(B) and have done what is good in your eyes.(C)” And Hezekiah wept(D) bitterly.

Then the word(E) of the Lord came to Isaiah:

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