7 ⌊Isaiah said,⌋ “This is your sign from the Lord that he will do what he promises.
8 The sun made a shadow that went down the stairway of Ahaz’s upper palace. I’m going to make the shadow go back ten steps.” So the sun on the stairway went back up the ten steps it had gone down.
9 King Hezekiah of Judah wrote this after he was sick and became well again:
10 I thought that in the prime of my lifeI would go down to the gates of Sheoland be robbed of the rest of my life.
11 I thought that I wouldn’t see the Lord in this world.Even with all the people in the world,I thought I would never see another person.
12 My life was over.You rolled it up like a shepherd’s tent.You rolled up my life like a weaver.You cut me off from the loom.You ended my life in one day.
13 I cried out until morningas if a lion had crushed all my bones.You ended my life in one day.