5. “Go to Hezekiah and tell him that the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says, ‘I heard your prayer, and I saw your tears. I will add 15 years to your life.
6. I will save you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will protect this city.’”
7. This is the sign from the Lord to show you that he will do what he says:
8. “Look, I am causing the shadow that is on the steps of Ahaz to move back ten steps. The sun’s shadow will go back up the ten steps that it has already been on.”
9. This is the letter from Hezekiah when he became well:
10. I thought I would live a full life. But now, in the middle of my life, the time has come for me to die.
11. So I said, “I will not see the Lord YAH in the land of the living again. I will not see the people living on earth.
12. My home, my shepherd’s tent, is being pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth someone rolls up and cuts from the loom. You ended my life in such a short time.