Top Verses from Isaiah 38  

In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover." (NIV)

IN THOSE days King Hezekiah of Judah became ill and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live. [II Kings 20:1-11; II Chron. 32:24-26.] (AMP)

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. (KJV)

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. (NIV)

For Sheol (the place of the dead) cannot confess and reach out the hand to You, death cannot praise and rejoice in You; they who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness [to Your promises; their probation is at an end, their destiny is sealed]. (AMP)

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

Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back. (NIV)

Behold, it was for my peace that I had intense bitterness; but You have loved back my life from the pit of corruption and nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

I said, "In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?" (NIV)

I said, In the noontide and tranquillity of my days I must depart; I am to pass through the gates of Sheol (the place of the dead), deprived of the remainder of my years. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz." So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down." (NIV)

Behold, I will turn the shadow [denoting the time of day] on the steps or degrees, which has gone down on the steps or sundial of Ahaz, backward ten steps or degrees. And the sunlight turned back ten steps on the steps on which it had gone down. (AMP)

Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. (KJV)

The living, the living – they praise you, as I am doing today; parents tell their children about your faithfulness. (NIV)

The living, the living--they shall thank and praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make known to the children Your faithfulness and Your truth. (AMP)

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

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: (NIV)

This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: (AMP)

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

"Go and tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life." (NIV)

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your life fifteen years. (AMP)

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. (KJV)

"I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!" (NIV)

Like a twittering swallow or a crane, so do I chirp and chatter; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary and dim with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; take my side and be my security [as of a debtor being sent to prison]. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Isaiah had said, "Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover." (NIV)

Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, that he may recover. (AMP)

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. (KJV)