5 “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add 15 years to your life.
6 And I will deliver you and this city from the power of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.
7 This is the sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised:
8 I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.” So the sun’s shadow went back the 10 steps it had descended.
9 A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:
10 I said: In the prime of my life I must go to the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years.
11 I said: I will never see the Lord,the Lord in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longerwith the inhabitants of what is passing away.