2. Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,
3. and 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.
4. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
5. Go, 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.
6. And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
7. And this shall he the sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken:
8. behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.
9. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
10. I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12. Mine age is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13. I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14. Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward; O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
15. What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.