This is what Hezekiah wrote after he got well:
The prayer is a typical song of thanksgiving that could easily be found in the Psalter. In more detail than most similar psalms, it rehearses the pray-re's lament in the time of illness (v. 10-16) and then gives thanks for the recovery (v. 17-20).
Like Hezekiah's prayer, other psalms cry out that Sheol and death cannot praise God (v. 18; see Psalms 6:5; 30:9; 88:10-12). Death is understood to be the end of personal existence by the people of the Old Testament. But God is the God of the living (v. 19), and this recognition of God's total commitment to life will be one impetus pushing in the direction of a theology that comes to understand the possibility of resurrection.
I thought I would die during my best years and stay as a prisoner forever in the world of the dead. I thought I would never again see you, my Lord,or any of the people who live on this earth.My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves.You cut me off like thread from a weaver’s loom;you make a wreck of me Day and night. Until morning came, I thought
you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me. I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Lord. I am terribly abused.
Please come and help me. There’s nothing I can say in answer to you, since you are the one
who has done this to me. My life has turned sour; I will limp until I die.Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me please make me healthy and strong again. It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins. No one in the world of the dead can thank you or praise you; none of those in the deep pit can hope for you to show them how faithful you are.Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness. You, Lord, will save me, and every day that we live we will sing in your temple to the music 🎶 of stringed instruments.
This is what Hezekiah wrote after he got well:
The prayer is a typical song of thanksgiving that could easily be found in the Psalter. In more detail than most similar psalms, it rehearses the pray-re's lament in the time of illness (v. 10-16) and then gives thanks for the recovery (v. 17-20).
Like Hezekiah's prayer, other psalms cry out that Sheol and death cannot praise God (v. 18; see Psalms 6:5; 30:9; 88:10-12). Death is understood to be the end of personal existence by the people of the Old Testament. But God is the God of the living (v. 19), and this recognition of God's total commitment to life will be one impetus pushing in the direction of a theology that comes to understand the possibility of resurrection.
I thought I would die during my best years and stay as a prisoner forever in the world of the dead. I thought I would never again see you, my Lord,or any of the people who live on this earth.My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves.You cut me off like thread from a weaver’s loom;you make a wreck of me Day and night. Until morning came, I thought
you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me. I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Lord. I am terribly abused.
Please come and help me. There’s nothing I can say in answer to you, since you are the one
who has done this to me. My life has turned sour; I will limp until I die.Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me please make me healthy and strong again. It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins. No one in the world of the dead can thank you or praise you; none of those in the deep pit can hope for you to show them how faithful you are.Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness. You, Lord, will save me, and every day that we live we will sing in your temple to the music 🎶 of stringed instruments.
The prayer is a typical song of thanksgiving that could easily be found in the Psalter. In more detail than most similar psalms, it rehearses the pray-re's lament in the time of illness (v. 10-16) and then gives thanks for the recovery (v. 17-20).
Like Hezekiah's prayer, other psalms cry out that Sheol and death cannot praise God (v. 18; see Psalms 6:5; 30:9; 88:10-12). Death is understood to be the end of personal existence by the people of the Old Testament. But God is the God of the living (v. 19), and this recognition of God's total commitment to life will be one impetus pushing in the direction of a theology that comes to understand the possibility of resurrection.
I thought I would die during my best years and stay as a prisoner forever in the world of the dead. I thought I would never again see you, my Lord,or any of the people who live on this earth.My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves.You cut me off like thread from a weaver’s loom;you make a wreck of me Day and night. Until morning came, I thought
you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me. I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Lord. I am terribly abused.
Please come and help me. There’s nothing I can say in answer to you, since you are the one
who has done this to me. My life has turned sour; I will limp until I die.Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me please make me healthy and strong again. It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins. No one in the world of the dead can thank you or praise you; none of those in the deep pit can hope for you to show them how faithful you are.Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness. You, Lord, will save me, and every day that we live we will sing in your temple to the music 🎶 of stringed instruments.
This is what Hezekiah wrote after he got well:
The prayer is a typical song of thanksgiving that could easily be found in the Psalter. In more detail than most similar psalms, it rehearses the pray-re's lament in the time of illness (v. 10-16) and then gives thanks for the recovery (v. 17-20).
Like Hezekiah's prayer, other psalms cry out that Sheol and death cannot praise God (v. 18; see Psalms 6:5; 30:9; 88:10-12). Death is understood to be the end of personal existence by the people of the Old Testament. But God is the God of the living (v. 19), and this recognition of God's total commitment to life will be one impetus pushing in the direction of a theology that comes to understand the possibility of resurrection.
I thought I would die during my best years and stay as a prisoner forever in the world of the dead. I thought I would never again see you, my Lord,or any of the people who live on this earth.My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves.You cut me off like thread from a weaver’s loom;you make a wreck of me Day and night. Until morning came, I thought
you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me. I cry like a swallow; I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Lord. I am terribly abused.
Please come and help me. There’s nothing I can say in answer to you, since you are the one
who has done this to me. My life has turned sour; I will limp until I die.Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me please make me healthy and strong again. It was for my own good that I had such hard times. But your love protected me from doom in the deep pit, and you turned your eyes away from my sins. No one in the world of the dead can thank you or praise you; none of those in the deep pit can hope for you to show them how faithful you are.Only the living can thank you, as I am doing today. Each generation tells the next about your faithfulness. You, Lord, will save me, and every day that we live we will sing in your temple to the music 🎶 of stringed instruments.