1. In those days Ḥizqiyahu was sick and near death. And Yeshayahu the prophet, the son of Amots, came to him, and said to him, “Thus said יהוה, ‘Set your house in order, for you are going to die and not live.’ ”
2. And Ḥizqiyahu turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to יהוה,
3. and said, “I pray, O יהוה, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes.” And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
4. And the word of יהוה came to Yeshayahu, saying,
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?”
11. I said, “I shall not see Yah – Yah in the land of the living! I shall no longer look on man with the inhabitants of the world!
12. “My dwelling is plucked up, taken from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. From day to night You make an end of me.