4. Then this message came to Isaiah from the lord:
5. “Go back to Hezekiah and tell him, ‘This is what the lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life,
6. and I will rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. Yes, I will defend this city.
7. “‘And this is the sign from the lord to prove that he will do as he promised:
8. I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.
9. When King Hezekiah was well again, he wrote this poem:
10. I said, “In the prime of my life,must I now enter the place of the dead?Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”