1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,
3and said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
7And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken;
8behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
9The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
10I said, in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave:
11I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living:
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent:
13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones:
14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter:
15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:
16O Lord, by these things men live,
17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness:
18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee:
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:
20The Lord was ready to save me:
21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?