In those days Ḥizqiyyahu fell mortally sick. And Yesha῾yahu the prophet, the son of Amoż came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Set thy house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Then Ḥizqiyyahu turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,

and said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight. And Ḥizqiyyahu wept sore.

Then came the word of the Lord to Yesha῾yahu, saying,

Go, and say to Ḥizqiyyahu, Thus says the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Ashshur: and I will defend this city.

And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has spoken:

behold, I will turn the shadow of the dial, which is gone down in the sun dial of Aĥaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which it had gone down on the dial.

The writing of Ḥizqiyyahu king of Yehuda when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

I said in the noontide of my days, I shall go to the gates of She᾽ol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

I said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

My dwelling is plucked up and is removed from me like a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up my life like a weaver: he will cut me off from the loom: from day to night Thou dost make an end of me.

I wait for morning; as a lion, even so he breaks all my bones: from day to night dost thou make an end of me.

Like a swift or a crane, even so do I chirp: I moan like a dove: my eyes fail with looking upwards: O Lord, I am oppressed, be Thou my security.

What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall walk softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

O Lord, with these things men live! and in all these is the life of my spirit: wherefore restore me and make me live.

Behold, for in peace I had great bitterness: but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it, from the pit of destruction: for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.

For She᾽ol cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.

The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.

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.

For Yesha῾yahu had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the festering place, and he shall recover.

Ḥizqiyyahu also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?