1 في تلك الايام مرض حزقيا للموت. فجاء اليه اشعياء بن آموص النبي وقال له. هكذا يقول الرب اوص بيتك لانك تموت ولا تعيش.2 فوجه حزقيا وجهه الى الحائط وصلى الى الرب3 وقال. آه يا رب اذكر كيف سرت امامك بالامانة وبقلب سليم وفعلت الحسن في عينيك. وبكى حزقيا بكاء عظيما4 فصار قول الرب الى اشعياء قائلا5 اذهب وقل لحزقيا. هكذا يقول الرب اله داود ابيك. قد سمعت صلاتك. قد رايت دموعك. هانذا اضيف الى ايامك خمس عشرة سنة.6 ومن يد ملك اشور انقذك وهذه المدينة. واحامي عن هذه المدينة.7 وهذه لك العلامة من قبل الرب على ان الرب يفعل هذا الأمر الذي تكلم به8 هانذا ارجع ظل الدرجات الذي نزل في درجات آحاز بالشمس عشر درجات الى الوراء. فرجعت الشمس عشر درجات في الدرجات التي نزلتها9 كتابة لحزقيا ملك يهوذا اذ مرض وشفي من مرضه.10 انا قلت. في عزّ ايامي اذهب الى ابواب الهاوية. قد اعدمت بقية سنيّ.11 قلت لا ارى الرب. الرب في ارض الاحياء. لا انظر انسانا بعد مع سكان الفانية.12 مسكني قد انقلع وانتقل عني كخيمة الراعي. لففت كالحائك حياتي. من النول يقطعني. النهار والليل تفنيني.13 صرخت الى الصباح. كالاسد هكذا يهشم جميع عظامي. النهار والليل تفنيني.14 كسنونة مزقزقة هكذا اصيح. اهدر كحمامة. قد ضعفت عيناي ناظرة الى العلاء يا رب قد تضايقت. كن لي ضامنا.15 بماذا اتكلم فانه قال لي وهو قد فعل. اتمشى متمهلا كل سنيّ من اجل مرارة نفسي.16 ايها السيد بهذه يحيون وبها كل حياة روحي فتشفيني وتحييني.17 هوذا للسلامة قد تحولت لي المرارة وانت تعلقت بنفسي من وهدة الهلاك فانك طرحت وراء ظهرك كل خطاياي.18 لان الهاوية لا تحمدك. الموت لا يسبحك. لا يرجو الهابطون الى الجب امانتك.19 الحي الحي هو يحمدك كما انا اليوم. الاب يعرّف البنين حقك.20 الرب لخلاصي. فنعزف باوتارنا كل ايام حياتنا في بيت الرب21 وكان اشعياء قد قال لياخذوا قرص تين ويضمدوه على الدّبل فيبرأ22 وحزقيا قال ما هي العلامة اني اصعد الى بيت الرب
1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus said the LORD, Set your house in order: for you shall die, and not live.2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD,3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.4 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus said the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.6 And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.7 And this shall be a sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken;8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: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.11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.12 My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd' tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night will you make an end of me.13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me.14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me, and make me to live.17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.18 For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster on the boil, and he shall recover.22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?