Isaiah 38:3

“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²  and how I have carried out your will.” ³  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ 

Ge 5:22,23; Ge 6:9; Ge 17:1; 2Sa 12:21,22; 1Ki 2:4; 1Ki 15:14; 1Ch 29:9,19; 2Ch 16:9; 2Ch 25:2; 2Ch 31:20,21; Ezr 10:1; Ne 1:4; Ne 5:19; Ne 13:14,22,31; Job 23:11,12; Ps 6:8; Ps 16:8; Ps 18:20-27; Ps 20:1-3; Ps 32:2; Ps 101:2; Ps 102:9; Ps 119:80; Ho 12:4; Joh 1:47; 2Co 1:12; Heb 5:7; Heb 6:10; 1Jo 3:21,22

¹ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

² tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

³ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”