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20 By that time, King Hizkiyah was terminally ill and Amots’s son the prophet Yeshayah (Isaiah) came to him and told him, “Yahweh says to get your affairs in order because you’re dying and won’t recover.”
2 But Hizkiyah rolled over to face the wall and prayed to Yahweh, 3 “Oh Yahweh, please remember that I’ve served you faithfully, and done what you asked with total sincerity.” Then Hizkiyah cried loudly.
4 As Yeshayah was leaving, Yahweh gave him this message before he’d even reached the middle courtyard, 5 “Go back and tell Hizkiyah, the leader of my people, ‘Your ancestor David’s god Yahweh says that he’s heard your prayer and seen your tears. He’s decided to heal you and you’ll be well enough to go to the temple within three days. 6 He’s added fifteen years to your life, plus he’ll rescue you and this city from the Assyrian king. Yahweh will defend Yerushalem for his own sake and for the sake of his servant David.”
7 Then Yeshayah told them to bring some pressed figs, and they brought them and placed them on the sore, and Hizkiyah started getting better.
8 Hizkiyah asked Yeshayah, “What’s the sign that Yahweh will heal me and that I’ll be able to go to the temple on the third day?”
9 “Yes, Yahweh will give you a sign that he’ll do what he said,” Yeshayah replied. “Do you want the shadows to advance suddenly or go back?”
10 “It’s easy for the shadows go forward,” said Hizkiyah. “So make them go backwards ten steps.”
11 So the prophet Yeshayah called to Yahweh, and he made the shadow go back on the steps made by King Ahaz—the shadow went ten steps backward.
38 Then a time came when King Hezkiyah became critically ill, and the prophet Yeshayah (Isaiah, Amots’ son) went to him and told him, “Yahweh says that you should put all your affairs into order, because you won’t recover—your time is up.”
2 Then Hezkiyah rolled over to face the wall and prayed to Yahweh, 3 “Oh Yahweh, please remember how I’ve served you faithfully and with integrity, and done what pleases you.” Then Hezkiyah cried and cried.
4 Later, Yahweh gave Yeshayah this message, 5 “Go and tell the king that Yahweh, the god of his father David has taken notice of his prayer and seen his tears. So he’ll give him another fifteen years 6 and will rescue both him and Yerushalem from the Assyrian king. Yahweh will defend this city 7 and this will be the sign from him that he will do what he’s said, 8 ‘Look, I will turn the shadow on the steps built by King Ahaz, back ten steps.’ ” So the sun’s shadow went back up ten steps that it had gone down.
Hezkiyah’s poem of praise
9 Yehudah’s King Hezkiyah wrote this poem after he’d recovered from his sickness:
10 I said, “I’ll go through the gates to the grave in the prime of my life,
≈ I’ll miss out on the remainder of my years.”
11 I said, “I won’t see Yah in the land of the living.
≈ I’ll no longer look at humankind but rather those who’ve ceased living.”
12 The body that I live in has been pulled up and removed from over me like a shepherd’s tent.
≈ I’ve rolled my life up like a weaver cutting me off from the loom.
From day until night, you make an end of me—
13 I lie down[fn] until the morning.
He breaks all my bones like a lion would.
From day until night, you make an end of me.
14 I chirp like a swallow and moan like a dove.
My eyes feel weak from looking upwards.
I’m oppressed, my master, help me out.
15 What will I say? He told me and then he did it.
I’ll walk slowly my remaining years because of my soul’s bitterness.
16 My master, people live by such things,
and my spirit finds life in all of them.
Please restore my health and preserve my life.
17 Look, this severe bitterness was for my welfare,
and you held my life back from the pit of destruction
because you threw all my sins back over your shoulder.
18 No, the grave doesn’t thank you.
Death doesn’t praise you.
Those who go down into the pit don’t expect you to be faithful.
19 The living, yes only the living, give thanks to you like I do today.
A father tells his children about your faithfulness.
20 Yahweh will save me and we’ll play stringed instruments
at his residence for the rest of our lives.
21 Then Yeshayah said, “Get them to apply a cake of figs to the boil so he’ll recover.”
22 Now Hezkiyah asked, “What will be the sign that I should go up to Yahweh’s residence?”
38:13 The Hebrew could be read: I cried out or I lie down.
24 Some time afterwards, King Hizkiyah became very sick and was expected to die, but he prayed to Yahweh and Yahweh answered him with a miracle. 25 However, Hizkiyah was very proud and didn’t thank Yahweh, so his anger fell on Yerushalem and Yehudah. 26 Then Hezekiah and Yerushalem’s inhabitants humbled themselves, and so Yahweh’s anger didn’t affect them during Hizkiyah’s lifetime.
