2. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
3. “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4. The Lord told Isaiah,
5. “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
6. and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”
21. Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”
22. Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”
7. Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said:
8. Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.
9. This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
10. “I thought, ‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol,I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
11. “I thought,‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living,I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
12. My dwelling place is removed and taken away from melike a shepherd’s tent.I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth;from the loom he cuts me off.You turn day into night and end my life.