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| [1]About that time was Hezekiah sick unto the death, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Put thine house in an order, for thou shalt die, and not live. |
[1]About this tyme was Hezekia sicke vnto death, and the prophete Esai the sonne of Amos came vnto hym, and sayde, Thus commaundeth the Lorde: Set thyne house in order, for thou must dye, and shalt not escape |
| [2]Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, |
[2]Then Hezekia turned his face toward the wall, and prayed vnto the Lorde |
| [3]And said, I beseech thee, Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight: and Hezekiah wept sore. |
[3]And sayde: Remember O Lorde I beseche thee, that I haue walked before thee in trueth and a stedfast heart, & haue done the thyng that is pleasaunt to thee. And Hezekia wept sore |
| [4]Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, |
[4]Then sayde God vnto Esai |
| [5]Go, and say unto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. |
[5]Go and speake vnto Ezekia: The Lord God of Dauid thy father sendeth thee this worde, I haue hearde thy prayer, and considered thy teares: beholde I wyll put fifteene yeres mo vnto thy lyfe |
| [6]And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the king of Asshur [Assyria], and this city: for I will defend this city. |
[6]And deliuer thee and the citie also from the hande of the kyng of Assyria: for I wyll defende the citie |
| [7]And this sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken, |
[7]And take thee this token of the Lord, that he wyll do it as he hath spoken |
| [8]Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees (whereby it is gone down in the dial of Ahaz by the sun) ten degrees backward: so the sun returned by ten degrees, by the which degrees it was gone down. |
[8]Beholde, I wyll returne the shadowe of Ahaz diall that nowe is layde out with the sunne, and bring it ten degrees backwarde: So the sunne turned ten degrees backwarde, the which he was descended afore |
| [9]The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. |
[9]A thankesgeuyng which Hezekia kyng of Iuda wrote, when he had ben sicke and was recouered |
| [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. |
[10]I thought I shoulde haue gone to the gates of hell when myne age was shortened, and haue wanted the residue of my yeres |
| [11]I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world. |
[11]I spake within my selfe, I wyll neuer visite the Lorde [the Lorde I say] in this lyfe: I wyll neuer see man among the dwellers of the worlde |
| [12]Mine habitation is departed, and is removed from me, like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off from the height: from day to night, thou wilt make an end of me. |
[12]Myne age is folden together & taken away from me lyke a sheepheardes cotage, I haue hewen of my lyfe by my sinnes, lyke as a weauer cutteth of his webbe: He wyll with pinyng sicknesse make an ende of me, yea he wyll make an ende of me in one day |
| [13]I reckoned to the morning: but he break all my bones, like a lion: from day to night wilt thou make an end of me. |
[13]I thought I woulde haue lyued vntyll the morowe, but he brused my bones lyke a lion: and in one day thou wylt make an ende of me |
| [14]Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes were lift up on high: O Lord, it hath oppressed me, comfort me. |
[14]Then chattered I lyke a swallowe, and lyke a crane, and mourned lyke a doue, I lift vp mine eyes into the heyght: O Lorde [sayde] my sicknesse kepeth me downe, ease thou me |
| [15]What shall I say? For he hath said it to me, and he hath done it: I shall walk weakly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. |
[15]What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe |
| [16]O Lord, to them that over live them, and to all that are in them, the life of my spirit shall be known, that thou causest me to sleep and hast given life to me. |
[16]O Lorde, to all those that shall lyue hereafter, yea to all men shall it be knowen, that euen in those yeres I haue a ioyfull lyfe, and that it was thou that causedst me to sleepe agayne, thou hast geuen lyfe to me |
| [17]Behold, for felicity I had bitter grief, but it was thy pleasure to deliver my soul from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. |
[17]Beholde, bitter as gall was my pensiuenesse, so sore longed I for health, and it was thy pleasure to deliuer my lyfe from the filthy pit: for thou it is [O Lorde] that hast cast all my sinnes behynde thy backe |
| [18]For the grave cannot confess thee: death cannot praise thee: they that go down into the pit, cannot hope for thy truth. |
[18]For hell prayseth not thee, death doth not magnifie thee: they that go downe into the graue prayse not thy trueth |
| [19]But the living, the living, he shall confess thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall declare thy truth. |
[19]But the lyuyng, yea the lyuyng knowledge thee, as I do this day: the father telleth his children of thy faythfulnesse |
| [20]The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my song, all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. |
[20]To heale me it is the Lordes worke, and we will sing my songes in the house of the Lorde all the dayes of our lyfe |
| [21]Then said Isaiah, Take a lump of dry figs and lay it upon the boil, and he shall recover. |
[21]And Esai sayde: Take a plaster of figges, and lay it vpon the sore, so shall it be whole |
| [22]Also Hezekiah had said, What is the sign, that I shall go up into the house of the Lord? |
[22]Then sayd Hezekia: O what a miracle is this, that I shall go vp into the house of the Lorde |