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.
16. O Lord, by these things men live, and wholly therein is the life of my spirit: wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
17. Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18. For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.