^{1 Ref} In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.

^{2 Ref} Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying,

^{3 Ref} O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

^{4 Ref} Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

^{5 Ref} Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

^{6 Ref} I will give you fifteen more years of life; and I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria; I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

^{7 Ref} Then Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. So they took it and put it on his wound, and he got better.

^{8 Ref} And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

^{9 Ref} And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?

^{10 Ref} And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.

^{11 Ref} Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.