²² He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ^(A)‘Who knows whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery

38 ^(A)In those days Hezekiah became ^(B)sick and was at the point of death. And ^(C)Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”^{[a] 2} Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, ³ and said, “Please, O Lord, remember how ^(D)I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁵ “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add ^(A)fifteen years to your life.^[a]

^9 (A)Who knows? God may turn and relent ^(B)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

¹⁰ When God saw what they did, ^(C)how they turned from their evil way, ^(D)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

⁶ So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, ^(A)call out to your god! ^(B)Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”

^9 (A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ^10 (B)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.