6 and rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will shield this city.”’”
21 Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”
22 Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”
7 Isaiah replied, “This is your sign from the Lord confirming that the Lord will do what he has said:
8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” And then the shadow went back ten steps.
9 This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:
10 “I thought, ‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol,I am deprived of the rest of my years.’