¹希西家病危与康复（王下20:1-11；代下32:24）

¹In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou [art] dying, and dost not live.`

²希西家就转脸向墙，对耶和华祷告、

²And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,

³说：“耶和华啊！求你记念我在你面前怎样诚诚实实、以纯全的心来行事，又作你眼中看为善的事。”然后，希西家就痛哭起来。

³and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which [is] good in thine eyes I have done;` and Hezekiah weepeth — a great weeping.

⁴耶和华的话临到以赛亚说：

⁴And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying,

⁵“你去告诉希西家：‘耶和华你祖先大卫的　神这样说：我听见了你的祷告，看见了你的眼泪；看哪！我必在你的寿数上加添十五年。

⁵Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, `I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,

⁶我必救你和这城脱离亚述王的手；我必保护这城。’

⁶and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.

⁷以下就是耶和华给你的兆头，为要证明耶和华必成全他所说过的。

⁷And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.

⁸看哪！我要使亚哈斯日晷上那向前进的日影往后退十度。”于是那向前进的日影，果然在日晷上往后退了十度。

⁸Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:` and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.

⁹希西家的感恩歌犹大王希西家从病患中痊愈以后，就写了这诗：

⁹A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:

¹⁰我曾说：在我盛年之际，我竟要进入阴间之门；我余剩的年日，竟被夺去。

¹⁰`I — I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

¹¹我曾说：在活人之地，我必不得见耶和华；在世间的居民中，我必不再见到任何人。

¹¹I said, I do not see Jah — Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

¹²我的住处被拔起，迁离了我，像牧人的帐棚一样；我卷起我的性命，像织布的卷布一样；他把我从机头剪断；一日之间，他必使我生命终结。

¹²My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd`s tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

¹³我不断哀叹，直到早晨，他像狮子一般，折断我所有的骨头；一日之间，他必使我生命终结。

¹³I have set [Him] till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

¹⁴我像燕子呻吟，像白鹤鸣叫，又像鸽子哀鸣。我的眼睛因仰望高处而疲倦；耶和华啊！我受欺压，求你作我的保障。

¹⁴As a crane — a swallow — so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression [is] on me, be my surety.

¹⁵我可说什么呢？他应许我的，已给我成全了；因我的心曾受过苦楚，所以我要谨慎地度我所有的年日。

¹⁵— What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶主啊！人活着是在于这些，我的灵存活，也在于这些。所以求你使我恢复健康，使我存活。

¹⁶Lord, by these do [men] live, And by all in them [is] the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

¹⁷看哪！我受尽苦楚，为要使我得平安；你保全我的性命，脱离毁灭的坑，因为你把我的一切罪都丢在你的背后。

¹⁷Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

¹⁸阴间不能称谢你，死亡不能赞美你，下坑的人都不能仰望你的信实。

¹⁸For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

¹⁹只有活人才能称谢你，像我今日一样；作父亲的，要让儿女知道你的信实。

¹⁹The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

²⁰耶和华必拯救我，因此我们要一生一世在耶和华的殿中，用丝弦的乐器弹奏我的诗歌。

²⁰Like myself to-day — a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah — to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.`

²¹以赛亚说：“叫人拿一块无花果饼来，贴在疮上，王就必痊愈。”

²¹And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.`

²²希西家问：“我能上耶和华的殿去，有什么兆头呢？”

²²And Hezekiah saith, `What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!`