23:038:015 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto
me, and himself
hath
done it: I shall go softly all my years in the
bitterness
of
my soul.
23:038:016 O lord, by these things men live,
and in all these things is
the
life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and
make me to
live.
23:038:017 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness:
but thou hast in
love
to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption:
for
thou
hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
23:038:018 For the grave cannot praise thee, death
can not celebrate
thee:
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy
truth.
23:038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise
thee, as I do this
day:
the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
23:038:020 The lord was ready to save me:
therefore we will sing my songs
to
the stringed instruments all the days of our life in
the
house
of the lord.
23:038:021 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump
of figs, and lay it
for
a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
23:038:022 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign
that I shall go up to
the
house of the lord?
23:039:001 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of
Baladan, king of
Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he
had
heard
that he had been sick, and was recovered.
23:039:002 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed
them the house of
his
precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the
spices,
and
the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour,
and
all that was found in his treasures: there was
nothing in
his
house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed
them
not.
23:039:003 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king
Hezekiah, and said unto
him,
What said these men? and from whence came they unto
thee?
And
Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto
me,
even
from Babylon.
23:039:004 Then said he, What have they seen in thine
house? And Hezekiah
answered,
All that is in mine house have they seen: there
is
nothing
among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
23:039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the
word of the lord of
hosts:
23:039:006 Behold, the days come, that all that is
in thine house, and
that
which thy fathers have laid up in store until this
day,
shall
be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left,
saith the
lord.
23:039:007 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee,
which thou shalt
beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in
the
palace
of the king of Babylon.


