Isaiah 38

New American Standard Bible

Hezekiah Healed

38 ^(A)In those days Hezekiah became ^[a]mortally ill. And ^(B)Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘^(C)Set your house in order, for you are going to die and not live.’” ²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, ³and said, “^(D)Please, Lord, just remember how I have ^(E)walked before You ^(F)wholeheartedly and in truth, and ^(G)have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah ^(H)wept ^[b]profusely.

⁴Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, ⁵“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add ^(I)fifteen years to your ^[c]life. ⁶And I will ^(J)save you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will protect this city.”’

⁷“And this shall be the ^(K)sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken: ⁸Behold, I will ^(L)make the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, go back ten steps.” So the ^(M)sun’s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.

⁹This is a writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and ^[d]recovery:

¹⁰I said, “^(N)In the middle of my ^[e]life
I am to enter the ^(O)gates of Sheol;
I have been ^(P)deprived of the rest of my years.”
¹¹I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord ^(Q)in the land of the living;
I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world.
¹²Like a shepherd’s ^(R)tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a ^(S)weaver I ^(T)rolled up my life.
He ^(U)cuts me off from the loom;
From ^(V)day until night You make an end of me.
¹³I composed my soul until morning.
^(W)Like a lion—so He ^(X)breaks all my bones,
From ^(Y)day until night You make an end of me.
¹⁴^(Z)Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;
I ^(AA)moan like a dove;
My ^(AB)eyes look wistfully to the heights;
Lord, I am oppressed, be my ^(AC)security.

¹⁵“^(AD)What shall I say?
^[f]For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will ^(AE)walk ^[g]quietly all my years because of the ^(AF)bitterness of my soul.
¹⁶Lord, ^(AG)by these things people live,
And in all these is the life of my spirit;
^[h]^(AH)Restore me to health and ^(AI)let me live!
¹⁷Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
But You have ^[i]^(AJ)kept my soul from the pit of ^[j]nothingness,
For You have ^(AK)hurled all my sins behind Your back.
¹⁸For ^(AL)Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down ^(AM)to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
¹⁹It is the ^(AN)living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A ^(AO)father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
²⁰The Lord is certain to save me;
So we will ^(AP)play my songs on stringed instruments
^(AQ)All the days of our life ^(AR)at the house of the Lord.”

²¹Now ^(AS)Isaiah had said, “Have them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover.” ²²Then Hezekiah had said, “What is the ^(AT)sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?”

Footnotes

Isaiah 38:1 Lit sick to death
Isaiah 38:3 Lit great weeping
Isaiah 38:5 Lit days
Isaiah 38:9 Lit he lived after his illness
Isaiah 38:10 Lit days
Isaiah 38:15 Targum and DSS And what shall I say for He
Isaiah 38:15 Or slowly
Isaiah 38:16 Lit You will
Isaiah 38:17 As in some ancient versions; MT loved
Isaiah 38:17 Or destruction

Revelation 8

New American Standard Bible

The Seventh Seal: Trumpets

8 When the Lamb broke the ^(A)seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. ²And I saw ^(B)the seven angels who stand before God, and seven ^(C)trumpets were given to them.

³^(D)Another angel came and stood at the ^(E)altar, holding a ^(F)golden censer; and much ^(G)incense was given to him, so that he might ^[a]add it to the ^(H)prayers of all the ^[b]saints on the ^(I)golden altar which was before the throne. ⁴And ^(J)the smoke of the incense ascended from the angel’s hand with the prayers of the ^[c]saints before God. ⁵Then the angel ^[d]took the ^[e]censer and ^(K)filled it with the fire of the altar, and ^(L)hurled it to the earth; and there were ^(M)peals of thunder and sounds, and flashes of lightning and an ^(N)earthquake.

⁶^(O)And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

⁷The first sounded, and there was ^(P)hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and ^(Q)a third of the earth was burned up, and ^(R)a third of the ^(S)trees were burned up, and all the green ^(T)grass was burned up.

⁸The second angel sounded, and something like a great ^(U)mountain burning with fire was hurled into the sea; and ^(V)a third of the ^(W)sea became blood, ⁹and ^(X)a third of the creatures which were in the sea ^[f]and had life, died; and a third of the ^(Y)ships were destroyed.

¹⁰The third angel sounded, and a great star ^(Z)fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a ^(AA)third of the rivers and on the ^(AB)springs of waters. ¹¹The star is named Wormwood; and a ^(AC)third of the waters became ^(AD)wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.

¹²The fourth angel sounded, and a ^(AE)third of the ^(AF)sun, a third of the ^(AG)moon, and a ^(AH)third of the ^(AI)stars were struck, so that a ^(AJ)third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a ^(AK)third of it, and the night in the same way.

¹³Then I looked, and I heard ^[g]an eagle flying in ^(AL)midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “^(AM)Woe, woe, woe to ^(AN)those who live on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the ^(AO)three angels who are about to sound!”