²² Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?

⁸ Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?

¹ > As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

¹ > How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Hosts!

² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹ For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

¹² Yahweh of Hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in you.

¹⁸ Yah has punished me severely, But he has not given me over to death.

¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

¹ > I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."