1In those days Hezekiah was sick to the point of death, and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Command your house, for you are dying and you will not live."2He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying:3Please, LORD, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a whole heart and what is good in your eyes, and I have done it. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.4And it happened—Isaiah had not gone out into the middle courtyard when the word of the LORD came to him, saying.5Return and say to Hezekiah, ruler of my people, Thus says the LORD God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I heal you; on the third day you will go up to the house of the LORD.6And I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city of refuge, and I will fence this city of refuge for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.7And Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." And they took it and put it on the boil, and he lived.8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What sign is there that the LORD will heal me, that I will go up on the third day to the house of the LORD?"9And Isaiah said, "This is the sign for you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the word that he spoke: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?"10Hezekiah said, "It is easy for the shadow to decline ten steps. No, rather let the shadow return ten steps backward."11Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he returned the shadow on the steps—the steps it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz—the last ten steps.