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918 Prophecy of Isaias

and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward.
morning, and behold they were all dead corpses. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by
37 And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians which it was gone down.
went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt 9 The writing of Ezechias king of Juda, when
in Ninive. he had been sick, and was recovered of his sick-
38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping ness.
in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adram- 10 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go
elech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of
sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, my years.
and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. 11 I 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.
Chapter 38 12 My generation is at an end, and it is rolled
away from me, as a shepherd’s tent. My life is
In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but
and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet cane unto beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to
him, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Take night thou wilt make an end of me.
order with thy house, for thou shalt die, and not 13 I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he
live. broken all my bones: from morning even to night
2 And Ezechias turned his face toward the thou wilt make an end of me.
wall, and prayed to the Lord, 14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will med-
3 And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remem- itate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking
ber how I have walked before thee in truth, and upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for
with a perfect heart, and have done that which me.
is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with 15 What shall I say, or what shall he answer
great weeping. for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will
4 And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of
saying: my soul.
5 Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord 16 O Lord, if man’s life be such, and the life of
the God of David thy father: I have heard thy my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt
prayer, and I have seen thy tears: behold I will correct me, and make me to live.
add to thy days fifteen years: 17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bit-
6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of ter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it
the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins be-
protect it. hind thy back.
7 And this shall be a sign to thee from the 18 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither
Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go
hath spoken: down into the pit, look for thy truth.
8 Behold I will bring again the shadow of the 19 The living, the living, he shall give praise
lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make