1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 38:1 | In *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. 2 Paralipomenon 32:24. | Year of the World 3291, Year before Christ 713.; 4 Kings xx. |
| Isaiah 38:2 | And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord, | |
| Isaiah 38:3 | And 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. | |
| Isaiah 38:4 | And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying: | |
| Isaiah 38:5 | Go 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: | |
| Isaiah 38:6 | And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it. | |
| Isaiah 38:7 | And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he hath spoken: | |
| Isaiah 38:8 | *Behold, 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. Ecclesiasticus 48:26. | |
| Isaiah 38:9 | The writing of Ezechias, king of Juda, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. | Ezechias. Sanchez groundlessly thinks it was composed by Isaias. (Calmet) --- Ezechias was afflicted lest he should give way to dangerous joy. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 38:10 | I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. | Hell. Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. (Challoner) --- He was afraid to die without issue. (St. Jerome; ver. 12.) --- Manasses was born three years later. (Calmet) --- The king would naturally have died. (St. Augustine, de Gen. ad lit. 6:17.) (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 38:11 | 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. | Living. I shall not assist at the festivals of the Lord in the temple. |
| Isaiah 38:12 | My 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 cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. | |
| Isaiah 38:13 | I 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. | |
| Isaiah 38:14 | I 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. | For me. He represents his disease, as an inexorable creditor. |
| Isaiah 38:15 | What 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. | |
| Isaiah 38:16 | O 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. | |
| Isaiah 38:17 | Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish; thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. | |
| Isaiah 38:18 | For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth. | Truth. He speaks only of the body. |
| Isaiah 38:19 | The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children. | |
| Isaiah 38:20 | O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. | |
| Isaiah 38:21 | Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed. | |
| Isaiah 38:22 | And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? | Lord. The answer is given, (4 Kings 20:9.) which seems to evince that this is only an extract. (Calmet) --- The prophet prescribed the medicine, and the king asked for a sign before he sung the canticle. (Worthington) |