7. Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said:
8. Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.
9. This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
10. “I thought, ‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol,I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
11. “I thought,‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living,I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.