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Gravely ill, Hezekiah hears Isaiah’s warning and prays through tears.
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Isaiah 38:1-3

Hezekiah turns toward the wall

Hezekiah's Illness and Song · Isaiah 38

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1In those days Hezekiah became sick to the point of death, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh: Set your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not live.”

2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

3And he said, “Please, O Yahweh, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept greatly.

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