Isaiah 38:22 - Exposition

Hezekiah also had said ; literally, and Hezekiah said. Our translators, both in this verse and at the commencement of Isaiah 38:21 , have endeavoured to conceal the awkwardness of the nexus , or rather want of nexus , with what precedes, by a modification of the rendering. The true sense is brought out by the proceeding, which is, however, a little arbitrary.