The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: (38:9)

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. (38:10)

I said, I shall not see the Lord, [even] the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. (38:11)

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me. (38:12)

I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me. (38:13)

Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me. (38:14)

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. (38:15)

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. (38:16)

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. (38:17)

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. (38:18)

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. (38:19)

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. (38:20)