4. And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying:
5. "Go and say to Hezekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of David, your father: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days.
6. And I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.
7. And this will be a sign for you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word, which he has spoken:
8. Behold, I will cause the shadow of the lines, which has now descended on the sundial of Ahaz, to move in reverse for ten lines." And so, the sun moved backward by ten lines, through the degrees by which it had descended.
9. The writing of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, after he had fallen ill and had recovered from his sickness:
10. "I said: In the middle of my days, I will go to the gates of Hell. So I sought the remainder of my years.
11. I said: I will not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I will no longer behold man, nor the habitation of rest.
12. My longevity has been taken away; it has been folded up and taken from me, like the tent of a shepherd. My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver. While I was still beginning, he cut me off. From morning until evening, you have marked out my limits.
13. I hoped, even until morning. Like a lion, so has he crushed all my bones. From morning until evening, you have marked my limits.
14. I will cry out, like a young swallow. I will meditate, like a dove. My eyes have been weakened by gazing upward. O Lord, I suffer violence! Answer in my favor.
15. What can I say, or what would he answer me, since he himself has done this? I will acknowledge to you all my years, in the bitterness of my soul.