Isaiah 38:1-8

Hezekiah's Sickness

38¹ In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou 'art' dying, and dost not live.' ² And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah, ³ and saith, 'I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which 'is' good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping. ⁴ And a word of Jehovah is unto Isaiah, saying, ⁵ Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years, ⁶ and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city. ⁷ And this 'is' to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken. ⁸ Lo, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it hath gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees:' and the sun turneth back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.