7 “ ‘The Lord will do what he says. This is the sign from the Lord to show you:
8 The sun has made a shadow go down the stairway of Ahaz, but I will make it go back ten steps.’ ” So the shadow made by the sun went back up the ten steps it had gone down.
9 After Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this song:
10 I said, “I am in the middle of my life.Do I have to go through the gates of death?Will I have the rest of my life taken away from me?”
11 I said, “I will not see the Lordin the land of the living again.I will not again see the peoplewho live on the earth.
12 Like a shepherd’s tent,my home has been pulled down and taken from me.I am finishedlike the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom.In one day you brought me to this end.
13 All night I cried loudly.Like a lion, he crushed all my bones.In one day you brought me to this end.