6. I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will protect this city.’”
21. Then Isaiah told Hezekiah, “Crush figs together and put them on your sore. Then you will get well.”
22. Hezekiah asked Isaiah, “What is the sign that proves I will get well and go to the Lord’S Temple?”
7. This is the sign from the Lord to show you that he will do what he says:
8. “Look, I am causing the shadow that is on the steps of Ahaz to move back ten steps. The sun’s shadow will go back up the ten steps that it has already been on.”
9. This is the letter from Hezekiah when he became well:
10. I thought I would live a full life. But now, in the middle of my life, the time has come for me to die.
11. So I said, “I will not see the Lord YAH in the land of the living again. I will not see the people living on earth.
12. My home, my shepherd’s tent, is being pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth someone rolls up and cuts from the loom. You ended my life in such a short time.
13. All night I cried as loud as a lion, but my hopes were crushed like a lion eating bones. You finished my life in such a short time.
14. I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became tired, but I continued looking to the heavens. Lord, I am so depressed. Promise to help me.”