Isaiah 38:3
ContextNET © | “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 |
NIV © | "Remember, O LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
NASB © | and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
NLT © | "Remember, O LORD, how I have always tried to be faithful to you and do what is pleasing in your sight." Then he broke down and wept bitterly. |
MSG © | "GOD, please, I beg you: Remember how I've lived my life. I've lived faithfully in your presence, lived out of a heart that was totally yours. You've seen how I've lived, the good that I have done." And Hezekiah wept as he prayed--painful tears. |
BBE © | O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping. |
NRSV © | "Remember now, O LORD, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
NKJV © | and said, "Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. |
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NASB © | and said <0559> , "Remember <02142> now <04994> , O <0577> LORD <03068> , I beseech <0577> You, how <0834> I have walked <01980> before <06440> You in truth <0571> and with a whole <08003> heart <03820> , and have done <06213> what <02896> is good <02896> in Your sight <05869> ." And Hezekiah <02396> wept <01058> bitterly .<01419> |
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NET © | “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 |
NET © Notes |
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.” |