Isaiah 38:3

Context
38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you¹ faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,² and how I have carried out your will.”³ Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.⁴

[38:3] ¹tn 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.

[38:3] ²tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

[38:3] ³tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3] ⁴tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”