Isaiah 38:1–8

Hezekiah Healed

^1aIn those days Hezekiah became ¹mortally ill. And ^bIsaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘^cSet your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’ ”

²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

³and said, “^aRemember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have ^bwalked before You in truth and with a ^cwhole heart, and ^dhave done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah ^ewept ¹bitterly.

⁴Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,

⁵“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add ^afifteen years to your ¹life.

⁶“I will ^adeliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.” ’

⁷“This shall be the ^asign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that He has spoken:

⁸“Behold, I will ^acause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.” So the ^bsun’s shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.