Isaiah 38:1-8

Modern English Version

Hezekiah’s Illness^(A)

38 In those days Hezekiah was mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall 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 beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying: ⁵ “Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Surely I will add to your days fifteen years. ⁶ I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

⁷ “This shall be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that He has spoken: ⁸ I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, to go back ten steps.” So the sun’s shadow returned ten steps on the sundial by which it had gone down.