32:24 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a sign confirming that he would be healed. 2 32:25 But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem. 3 32:26 But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. 4
38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 5 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” 38:2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you 6 faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, 7 and how I have carried out your will.” 8 Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. 9
38:4 The Lord told Isaiah, 10 38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor 11 David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life, 38:6 and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’” 38:7 Isaiah replied, 12 “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said: 38:8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” 13 And then the shadow went back ten steps. 14
38:9 This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
38:10 “I thought, 15
‘In the middle of my life 16 I must walk through the gates of Sheol,
I am deprived 17 of the rest of my years.’
38:11 “I thought,
‘I will no longer see the Lord 18 in the land of the living,
I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world. 19
38:12 My dwelling place 20 is removed and taken away 21 from me
like a shepherd’s tent.
I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; 22
from the loom he cuts me off. 23
You turn day into night and end my life. 24
38:13 I cry out 25 until morning;
like a lion he shatters all my bones;
you turn day into night and end my life. 26
38:14 Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp,
I coo 27 like a dove;
my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. 28
O sovereign master, 29 I am oppressed;
help me! 30
38:15 What can I say?
He has decreed and acted. 31
I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. 32
38:16 O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life;
may years of life be restored to me. 33
Restore my health 34 and preserve my life.’
38:17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. 35
You delivered me 36 from the pit of oblivion. 37
For you removed all my sins from your sight. 38
38:18 Indeed 39 Sheol does not give you thanks;
death does not 40 praise you.
Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.
38:19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks,
as I do today.
A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
38:20 The Lord is about to deliver me, 41
and we will celebrate with music 42
for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.” 43
11:1 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. 44 11:2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil 45 and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 46 11:3 So the sisters sent a message 47 to Jesus, 48 “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.” 11:4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, 49 but to God’s glory, 50 so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 51 11:5 (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) 52