^{1 Ref} 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 Ref} And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,

^{3 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.

^{7 Ref} And this `is' to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.

^{8 Ref} 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.