5 “Return and tell Hezekiah ^athe leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: ^b“I have heard your prayer, I have seen ^cyour tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.  ‡

6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and ^aI will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.” ’ ”  ‡

9 Then Isaiah said, ^a“This is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing which He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?”  ‡

10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten¹ degrees; no, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees.”  ‡