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.
13. “I soothed myself until morning. Like a lion, so He shatters all my bones. From day to night You make an end of me.
14. “Like a swallow or a thrush, so I chattered; I moaned like a dove; my eyes look weakly on high. O יהוה, I am oppressed, undertake for me!
15. “What do I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted. Softly I go, all my years, because of the bitterness of my being.
16. “O יהוה, by these do men live, and my spirit finds life in all of them. Restore me and make me live.
17. “See, for peace I had what was bitter, bitter. But You have lovingly delivered my being from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18. “For the grave does not thank You, nor death praise You; those who go down to the pit do not watch for Your truth.