1. 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. And Hezekiah turneth round his face unto the wall, and prayeth unto Jehovah,
3. 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. 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. and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver thee and this city, and have covered over this city.
7. And this [is] to thee the sign from Jehovah, that Jehovah doth this thing that He hath spoken.
8. 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.
9. A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick, when he reviveth from his sickness:
10. `I--I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
11. I said, I do not see Jah--Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.