4 Then the Lord’s word came to Isaiah:
5 "Go and say to Hezekiah: The Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says this: I have heard your prayer and have seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life.
6 I will rescue you and this city from the power of the Assyrian king. I will defend this city.
7 This will be your sign from the Lord that he will do what he promised:
8 once the shadow cast by the sun descends on the steps of Ahaz, I will make it back up ten steps." And the sun went back ten of the steps that it had already descended.
9 A composition by Judah’s King Hezekiah when he was sick and then recovered from his sickness:
10 I thought, I must depart in the prime of my life;I have been relegated to the gates of the underworld for the rest of my life.