Isaías 38

1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, "Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’"

2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, 3 and said, "Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying, 5 "Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city. 7 This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken. 8 Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps."’" So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness:

10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.*38:10 Sheol is the place of the dead.

I am deprived of the residue of my years."

11 I said, "I won’t see Yah,

Yah in the land of the living.

I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12 My dwelling is removed,

and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent.

I have rolled up my life like a weaver.

He will cut me off from the loom.

From day even to night you will make an end of me.

13 I waited patiently until morning.

He breaks all my bones like a lion.

From day even to night you will make an end of me.

14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane.

I moaned like a dove.

My eyes weaken looking upward.

Lord, I am oppressed.

Be my security."

15 What will I say?

He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.

I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

16 Lord, men live by these things;

and my spirit finds life in all of them.

You restore me, and cause me to live.

17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish,

but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;

for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

18 For Sheol*38:18 Sheol is the place of the dead. can’t praise you.

Death can’t celebrate you.

Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.

The father shall make known your truth to the children.

20 Yahweh will save me.

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover." 22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?"

Te Mate me te Whakaoranga o Kīngi Hetekia

1 I aua rā ka tūroro a Hetekia, me kāhore ka marere. Nā, ka haere a Ihāia poropiti, tama a Āmoho ki a ia, ka mea ki a ia, "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: Whakahaua iho tōu whare, nō te mea ka mate koe, e kore e ora."

2 Nā, ka tahuri te mata o Hetekia ki te pakitara, ā, ka īnoi ki a Ihowā, 3 ka mea, "Tēnā rā, e Ihowā kia mahara ki ōku hāereerenga i tōu aroaro i runga i te pono, i te ngākau tapatahi, ki tāku meatanga i te pai ki tāu titiro." Nā, tangi ana a Hetekia; nui atu te tangi.

4 Nā, ka puta te kupu a Ihowā ki a Ihāia, ka mea: 5 "Haere, mea atu ki a Hetekia, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, a te Atua o Rāwiri, o tōu tupuna: Kua rangona tāu īnoi e ahau, kua kitea e ahau ōu roimata; nanā, ka tāpiritia e ahau ōu rā ki ngā tau kotahi tekau mā rima. 6 Ka whakaorangia koe me tēnei pā e ahau i te ringa o te kīngi o Ahiria; ka tiakina anō e ahau tēnei pā.

7 " ‘Ko te tohu anō tēnei a Ihowā ki a koe, ka oti i a Ihowā tēnei mea i kōrerotia nei e ia: 8 Nanā, ka whakahokia ake e ahau te ātārangi i ngā nekehanga i heke atu ai i runga i te whakaatu hāora a Ahata; kia tekau ngā nekehanga whakamuri.’ "

Nā, kotahi tekau ngā nekehanga i hoki ake ai te rā, nō ngā nekehanga anō i heke iho ai.

9 Ko te tuhituhi a Hetekia kīngi o Hūrā, i a ia i mate rā, ā ora ake ana i tōna mate:

10 I mea ahau: "I te poutūmārōtanga o ōku rā,

tērā ahau e tomo ki ngā kūwaha o te rēinga;

kua tangohia atu i ahau te toenga o ōku tau."

11 I kī ahau, "E kore ahau e kite i a Ihowā,

arā i a Ihowā i runga i te whenua o te hunga ora;

heoi anō āku tirohanga ki te tangata,

ki te hunga e noho ana i te ao.

12 Ko te wā i ahau nei kua riro, mauria atu ana i ahau,

ānō he tēneti nō te hēpara;

kei tā te kaiwhatu kākahu tāku kōpaki i tōku ora;

ka tapahia mai ahau e ia i roto i ngā miro;

i te ao, i te pō, mutu pū tāku i a koe.

13 I whakamārie ahau i ahau ā taea noatia te ata;

tērā tāna e rite ki tā te raiona,

ka wāwāhia e ia ōku iwi katoa;

i te ao, i te pō, mutu pū tāku i a koe.

14 I korokī ahau, pērā i tā te warou, i tā te kareni;

i tangi ahau me te kūkupa.

Matawaia ana ōku kanohi i te tirohanga whakarunga.

E Ihowā, e tūkinotia ana ahau, pikitia tōku tūranga!"

15 Kia pēhea he kupu māku?

Nāna i kōrero ki ahau, nāna anō i mahi;

i ōku tau katoa ka āta haere ahau

i runga i te kawa o tōku wairua.

16 E te Ariki, kei ēnei mea te ora o te tangata,

kei ēnei mea katoa anō te ora o tōku wairua;

mō reira whakahokia ake ahau e koe ki te ora,

kia ora ai ahau.

17 Nanā, he mea kia rangimārie ai ahau

i pā ai te pōuri kino ki ahau;

otiia he aroha nōu ki tōku wairua i ora ai ahau

i roto i te rua o te ngaromanga.

Kua oti nei hoki ōku hara katoa te maka e koe

ki muri i tōu tuarā.

18 E kore hoki e taea e te rēinga te whakawhetai ki a koe,

e kore te mate e āhei te whakamoemiti ki a koe;

ko te hunga e heke ana ki te rua

kāhore ō rātou tūmanako ki tōu pono.

19 Ko te tangata ora, ko te tangata ora, māna te whakawhetai ki a koe,

te pēnei me tāku nei i tēnei rā;

tērā tōu pono ka whakakitea

e te matua ki ngā tamariki.

20 I tata mai a Ihowā ki te whakaora i ahau,

mō reira ka waiatatia e mātou āku waiata

i runga i ngā aho whakatangi

i ngā rā katoa e ora ai mātou

i roto i te whare o Ihowā.

21 I kī hoki a Ihāia, "Tīkina he papa piki, whakapiritia ki te whēwhē, ā, ka ora ia."

22 I kī anō a Hetekia, "He aha te tohu tērā ahau ka haere ki runga ki te whare o Ihowā?"