¹ In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, So says the LORD, Set your house in order: for you will die, and not live. ² Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, ³ And said, Remember now, O 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. And Hezekiah wept sore. ⁴ Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, ⁵ Go, and say to Hezekiah, So says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: see, I will add to your days fifteen years. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. ⁷ And this will be a sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken; ⁸ See, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. ⁹ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness ¹⁰ I said in the cutting off of my days, I will go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. ¹¹ I said, I will not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world. ¹² Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night will you make an end of me. ¹³ I counted till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me. ¹⁴ Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. ¹⁵ What will I say ? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I will go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me, and make me to live. ¹⁷ See, for peace I had great bitterness : but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: those go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living, he will praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children will make known your truth. ²⁰ The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. ²¹ For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister on the boil, and he will recover. ²² Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?