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

10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:

I am deprived of the residue of my years.

11 I said, I shall not see Yah, Yah in the land of the living:

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

12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent:

I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:

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

13 I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones:

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

14 Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter;

I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail with looking upward:

Lord, I am oppressed, be my collateral.

15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it:

I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

16 Lord, by these things men live;

Wholly therein is the life of my spirit:

You restore me, and cause me to live.

17 Behold, it was for my peace that 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 Sheol 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 this day:

The father to the children shall make known your truth.

20 Yahweh is ready to save me:

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments

All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.

21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake 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 Yahweh?

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