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

^{10 Ref} `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 Ref} I 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 Ref} My 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 Ref} I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

^{14 Ref} As 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 Ref} -- 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 Ref} Lord, 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 Ref} Lo, 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 Ref} For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

^{19 Ref} The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

^{20 Ref} Like 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 Ref} And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'

^{22 Ref} And Hezekiah saith, `What `is' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'