4. Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:
5. ‘Go and tell Hezekiah, “This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
6. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
7. ‘ “This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:
8. I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.” ’ So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
9. A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10. I said, ‘In the prime of my lifemust I go through the gates of deathand be robbed of the rest of my years?’