Isaiah 38

²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

³and said, “Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁴Then the LORD’s word came to Isaiah, saying,

⁵“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘The LORD, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

⁶I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

⁷This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken.

⁸Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.”’” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

⁹The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness:

¹⁰I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol.

¹¹I said, “I won’t see the LORD,

¹²My dwelling is removed,

¹³I waited patiently until morning.

¹⁴I chattered like a swallow or a crane.

¹⁵What will I say?

¹⁶Lord, men live by these things;

¹⁷Behold, for peace I had great anguish,

¹⁸For Sheol can’t praise you.

¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.

²⁰The LORD will save me.

²¹Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

²²Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD’s house?”