5. “Go and say to Ḥizqiyahu, ‘Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Dawiḏ your father, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am adding fifteen years to your days.
6. “And out of the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur I shall deliver you and this city, and protect this city.” ’
7. “And this is the sign to you from יהוה, that יהוה does this word which He has spoken:
8. “See, I am bringing the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Aḥaz, ten degrees backward.” And the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.
9. This is the writing of Ḥizqiyahu sovereign of Yehuḏah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
10. I said, “Am I to go into the gates of the grave in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?”