Isaiah 38:5

The Passion Translation

“Go deliver this message to Hezekiah: ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of your ancestor David, has to say to you: I have heard your heartfelt prayer and I have seen you cry tear after bitter tear. I will give you another fifteen years.

Cross References

Psalm 116:15

When one of God’s holy lovers dies, it is costly to the Lord, touching his heart.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the wounds of every shattered heart.

Psalm 39:12

Lord, listen to all my tender cries. Read my every tear, like liquid words that plead for your help. I feel all alone at times, like a stranger to you, passing through this life just like all those before me.

Psalm 56:8

You’ve kept track of all my wandering and my weeping. You’ve stored my many tears in your bottle—not one will be lost. For they are all recorded in your book of remembrance.

Psalm 6:9

Yes! Yahweh my healer has heard all my pleading and has taken hold of my prayers and answered them all.

Isaiah 37:21

Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent this message to Hezekiah: “Hear the words of Yahweh, the God of Israel: ‘Because you prayed to me about the taunts of Sennacherib, king of Assyria,

Isaiah 38:4

Then Isaiah received another prophetic word for Hezekiah. Yahweh said to him,

Lamentations 3:56

You have heard me cry out to you: “Do not close your ears to my sighs and to my cries.”

Matthew 22:32

‘I am the Living God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Luke 1:13

But the angel reassured him, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God is showing grace to you. For I have come to tell you that your prayer for a child has been answered. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son and you are to name him John.

Acts 27:24

and said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You are destined to stand trial before Caesar. And because of God’s favor on you, he has given you the lives of everyone who is sailing with you.’

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who always knows how to encourage the depressed, encouraged us greatly by the arrival of Titus.

Revelation 7:17

For the Lamb at the center of the throne continuously shepherds them unto life —guiding them to the everlasting fountains of the water of life. And God will wipe from their eyes every last tear!”