38In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover."H3117H2396H2470H4191H3470H5030H1121H531H935H559H559H3068H1004H6680H4191H24212Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD:H2396H5437H6440H7023H6419H30683"Remember now, O LORD, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.H559H2142H3068H577H1980H6440H571H8003H3820H6213H2896H5869H2396H1058H1065H14194Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:H1697H3068H3470H5595"Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.H1980H559H2396H559H3068H430H1732H1H8085H8605H7200H1832H3254H3117H2568H6240H81416I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and defend this city.H5337H5892H3709H4428H804H1598H58927"This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:H226H3068H3068H6213H1697H16968See, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps." So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.H7725H6738H4609H3381H8121H4609H271H6235H4609H322H8121H7725H6235H4609H4609H33819A writing of King Hezekiah of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:H4385H2396H4428H3063H2470H2421H248310I said: In the noontide of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.H559H1824H3117H3212H8179H7585H6485H3499H814111I said, I shall not see the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world.H559H7200H3050H3050H776H2416H5027H120H3427H230912My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;H1755H5265H1540H7473H168H7088H707H2416H1214H1803H3117H3915H799913I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.H7737H1242H738H7665H6106H3117H3915H799914Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!H5483H5693H6850H1897H3123H5869H1809H4791H3068H6234H614815But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.H1696H559H6213H1718H8141H4751H531516O Lord, by these things people live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh, restore me to health and make me live!H136H2421H2416H7307H2492H242117Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.H7965H4751H4843H2836H5315H7845H1097H7993H2399H310H146018For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you; those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.H7585H3034H4194H1984H3381H953H7663H57119The living, the living, they thank you, as I do this day; fathers make known to children your faithfulness.H2416H2416H3034H3117H1H1121H3045H57120The LORD will save me, and we will sing to stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.H3068H3467H5058H5059H3117H2416H1004H306821Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and apply it to the boil, so that he may recover."H3470H559H5375H1690H8384H4799H7822H242122Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?"H2396H559H226H5927H1004H3068