1. In those days, Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came and said to him: "Thus says the Lord God: Instruct your house, for you will die, and not live."
2. And he turned his face to the wall, and he prayed to the Lord, saying:
3. "I beg you, O Lord, I beseech you, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and how I have done what is pleasing before you." And then Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
4. And before Isaiah departed from the middle part of the atrium, the word of the Lord came to him, saying: