Yesaya 65:19

65:19 Jerusalem will bring me joy,

and my people will bring me happiness. ¹ 

The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow

will never be heard in her again.

Yesaya 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ²  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ³  and how I have carried out your will.” ⁴  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁵ 

[65:19]  ¹ tn Heb “and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be happy in my people.”

[38:3]  ² 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.

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

[38:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

[38:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”