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希西家王的疾病和痊癒

1那時希西家病得要死，亞摩斯的兒子先知以賽亞去見他，對他說：「耶和華如此說：你當留遺命與你的家，因為你必死不能活了。」

2希西家就轉臉朝牆，禱告耶和華說：

3「耶和華啊，求你記念我在你面前怎樣存完全的心，按誠實行事，又做你眼中所看為善的。」希西家就痛哭了。

4耶和華的話臨到以賽亞說：

5「你去告訴希西家說，耶和華－你祖大衛的上帝如此說：我聽見了你的禱告，看見了你的眼淚。我必加增你十五年的壽數；

6並且我要救你和這城脫離亞述王的手，也要保護這城。

7「我－耶和華必成就我所說的。我先給你一個兆頭，

8就是叫亞哈斯的日晷，向前進的日影往後退十度。」於是，前進的日影果然在日晷上往後退了十度。

9猶大王希西家患病已經痊癒，就作詩說：

10我說：正在我中年之日 必進入陰間的門； 我餘剩的年歲不得享受。

11我說：我必不得見耶和華， 就是在活人之地不見耶和華； 我與世上的居民不再見面。

12我的住處被遷去離開我， 好像牧人的帳棚一樣； 我將性命捲起， 像織布的捲布一樣。 耶和華必將我從機頭剪斷， 從早到晚，他要使我完結。

13我使自己安靜直到天亮； 他像獅子折斷我一切的骨頭， 從早到晚，他要使我完結。

14我像燕子呢喃， 像白鶴鳴叫， 又像鴿子哀鳴； 我因仰觀，眼睛困倦。 耶和華啊，我受欺壓， 求你為我作保。

15我可說甚麼呢？ 他應許我的，也給我成就了。 我因心裏的苦楚， 在一生的年日必悄悄而行。

16主啊，人得存活乃在乎此。 我靈存活也全在此。 所以求你使我痊癒，仍然存活。

17看哪，我受大苦，本為使我得平安； 你因愛我的靈魂便救我脫離敗壞的坑， 因為你將我一切的罪扔在你的背後。

18原來，陰間不能稱謝你， 死亡不能頌揚你； 下坑的人不能盼望你的誠實。

19只有活人，活人必稱謝你， 像我今日稱謝你一樣。 為父的，必使兒女知道你的誠實。

20耶和華肯救我， 所以，我們要一生一世 在耶和華殿中 用絲弦的樂器唱我的詩歌。

21以賽亞說：「當取一塊無花果餅來，貼在瘡上，王必痊癒。」

22希西家問說：「我能上耶和華的殿，有甚麼兆頭呢？」

1In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came unto him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not live.

2And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

3And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

4And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:

5Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will add to thy days fifteen years:

6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.

7And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken:

8Behold I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.

9The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

10I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years.

11I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.

12My generation is at an end, and it is rolled away from me, as a shepherd’s tent. My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he out me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

13I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

14I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

15What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16O Lord, if man’s life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.

17Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou best delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

18For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

19The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.

20O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

21Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as it plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.

22And Ezechias bed said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?