1In those days Hezekiah became weak and was about to die. Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die and shall not live."2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,3Please, O LORD, remember, I beg you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.4Now Isaiah had not yet gone out of the city into the middle court when the word of the LORD came to him, saying,5Go back and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people: "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I am healing you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD."6And I will add fifteen years to your days, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for the sake of David my servant.7Then Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." So they took it and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.8Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"9Isaiah answered, "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: the shadow has gone forward ten steps; if it goes back ten steps."10Hezekiah replied, "It is a small matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps; rather, let the shadow go back ten steps."11So Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow back ten steps on the stairway of Ahaz by which it had gone down.