1. At about that time Hezekiah became deathly sick. The prophet Isaiah, Amoz’s son, came to him and said: "The Lord God says this: Put your affairs in order because you are about to die. You won’t survive this."
2. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord:
3. "Please, Lord, remember how I’ve walked before you in truth and sincerity. I’ve done what you consider to be good." Then Hezekiah cried and cried.
4. Then the Lord’s word came to Isaiah:
5. "Go and say to Hezekiah: The Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says this: I have heard your prayer and have seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life.
6. I will rescue you and this city from the power of the Assyrian king. I will defend this city.
7. This will be your sign from the Lord that he will do what he promised:
8. once the shadow cast by the sun descends on the steps of Ahaz, I will make it back up ten steps." And the sun went back ten of the steps that it had already descended.
9. A composition by Judah’s King Hezekiah when he was sick and then recovered from his sickness:
10. I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life;I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld for the rest of my life.
11. I thought, I won’t see the Lord.The Lord is in the land of the living.I won’t look upon humans againor be with the inhabitants of the world.