38In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your affairs in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"H3117H2396H2470H4191H3470H5030H1121H531H935H559H559H3068H1004H6680H4191H24212Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.H2396H5437H6440H7023H6419H30683He said, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, 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 tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.H1980H559H2396H559H3068H430H1732H1H8085H8605H7200H1832H3254H3117H2568H6240H81416And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.H5337H5892H3709H4428H804H1598H58927This is the sign to you from the LORD that the LORD will do what He has promised:H226H3068H3068H6213H1697H16968I am going to make the sun's shadow that goes down on Ahaz's stairway return by 10 steps." So the sun's shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.H7725H6738H4609H3381H8121H4609H271H6235H4609H322H8121H7725H6235H4609H4609H33819A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:H4385H2396H4428H3063H2470H2421H248310I said: In the prime of my life I must go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years.H559H1824H3117H3212H8179H7585H6485H3499H814111I said: I will never see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longer with the inhabitants of what is passing away.H559H7200H3050H3050H776H2416H5027H120H3427H230912My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. You make an end of me from day until night.H1755H5265H1540H7473H168H7088H707H2416H1214H1803H3117H3915H799913I thought until the morning: He will break all my bones like a lion; You make an end of me day and night.H7737H1242H738H7665H6106H3117H3915H799914I chirp like a swallow [or] a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.H5483H5693H6850H1897H3123H5869H1809H4791H3068H6234H614815What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it. I walk along slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul,H1696H559H6213H1718H8141H4751H531516Lord, because of these [promises] people live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well; You have restored me to health and let me live.H136H2421H2416H7307H2492H242117Indeed, it was for [my own] welfare that I had such great bitterness; but Your love [has delivered] me from the Pit of destruction, for You have thrown 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, only the living can thank You, as I do today; a father will make Your faithfulness known to childrenH2416H2416H3034H3117H1H1121H3045H57120The LORD will save me; we will play 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 his infected skin, so that he may recover."H3470H559H5375H1690H8384H4799H7822H242122And Hezekiah had asked, "What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD's temple?"H2396H559H226H5927H1004H3068