4. Then the Lord spoke his word to Isaiah:
5. “Go to Hezekiah and tell him: ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer. And I have seen your tears. I will add 15 years to your life.
6. I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.’”
21. Then Isaiah said, “Make a paste from figs. Put it on Hezekiah’s boil. Then he will get well.”
22. Hezekiah asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign? What will show that I will go up to the Temple of the Lord?”
7. Isaiah said, “The Lord will do what he says. This is the sign from the Lord to show you:
8. The sun has made a shadow go down the stairway of Ahaz. I will make it go back ten steps.” So the shadow made by the sun went back up the ten steps it had gone down.
9. After Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this song:
10. I said, “I am in the middle of my life.Do I have to go through the gates where the dead are now?Will I have the rest of my life taken away from me?”
11. I said, “I will not see the Lordin the land of the living again.I will not again see the peoplewho live on the earth.
12. Like a shepherd’s tent,my home has been pulled down and taken from me.I am finished like the clotha weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom.In one day you brought me to this end.
13. All night I cried loudly.Like a lion, he crushed all my bones.In one day you brought me to this end.
14. I cried like a bird.I moaned like a dove.My eyes became tired as I looked to the heavens.Lord, I have troubles. Please help me.”
15. What can I say?The Lord told me what would happen and then made it happen.I have had these troubles in my soul.So now I will be humble all my life.