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Isaiah 38:3-5
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3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you[a] faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,[b] and how I have carried out your will.”[c] Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.[d]

4 The Lord’s message came to Isaiah, 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor[e] David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.
  2. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”
  3. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”
  4. Isaiah 38:3 tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”
  5. Isaiah 38:5 tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).
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