New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Isaiah 38
17 "Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18 "For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19 "It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today; A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
20 "The Lord will surely save me; So we will play my songs on stringed instruments All the days of our life at the house of the Lord."
21 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."
22 Then Hezekiah had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?"
Isaiah 39
1 At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
2 Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon."
4 He said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them."
5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord of hosts,
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