Isaiah 38:1-8

Christian Standard Bible

Hezekiah’s Illness and Recovery

38 In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill.^(A) The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your house in order,^(B) for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”^[a]

² Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. ³ He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly,^(C) and have done what pleases you.”^(D) And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: ⁵ “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your life.^{[b](E) 6} And I will rescue you and this city from the grasp of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.^{(F) 7} This is the sign to you^(G) from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: ⁸ I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on the stairway of Ahaz go back by ten steps.’”^(H) So the sun’s shadow^[c] went back the ten steps it had descended.