5 “Go back to Hezekiah and tell him, ‘This is what the lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life,
6 and I will rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. Yes, I will defend this city.
7 “‘And this is the sign from the lord to prove that he will do as he promised:
8 I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.
9 When King Hezekiah was well again, he wrote this poem:
10 I said, “In the prime of my life,must I now enter the place of the dead?Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”
11 I said, “Never again will I see the lord godwhile still in the land of the living.Never again will I see my friendsor be with those who live in this world.