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He said, "While the child was still alive, aI fasted and wept; for I said, 'bWho knows, the Lord may be gracious to me, that the child may live.'
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Isaiah 38:1-3
Isaiah 38
1aIn those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And bIsaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'cSet your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'"
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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
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and said, "aRemember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have bwalked before You in truth and with a cwhole heart, and dhave done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah ewept bitterly.