20. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to HEZEKIAH, saying, "The LORD, the God of Israel, says 'You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

21. This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: 'The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

22. Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23. By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

24. I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

25. Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

26. Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

27. But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

28. Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.'

29. "This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

30. The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

31. For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The LORD's zeal will perform this.

32. "Therefore the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

33. By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' says The LORD.

34. 'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

5. "Turn back, and tell HEZEKIAH the prince of my people, 'The LORD, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to The LORD's house.

6. I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake."'"

7. Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs."They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

8. HEZEKIAH said to Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I will go up to The LORD's house the third day?"

9. Isaiah said, "This will be the sign to you from The LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?"

10. HEZEKIAH answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps."

11. Isaiah the prophet cried to The LORD; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

12. At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to HEZEKIAH; for he had heard that HEZEKIAH had been sick.

13. HEZEKIAH listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that HEZEKIAH didn't show them.

14. Then Isaiah the prophet came to king HEZEKIAH, and said to him, "What did these men say? From where did they come to you?"HEZEKIAH said, "They have come from a far country, even from Babylon."

15. He said, "What have they seen in your house?"HEZEKIAH answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

16. Isaiah said to HEZEKIAH, "Hear The LORD's word.

17. 'Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says The LORD.

18. 'They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

5. "Go, and tell HEZEKIAH, 'The LORD, the God of David your father, says, "I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

6. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

7. This shall be the sign to you from The LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has spoken.

8. Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down."'"

5. Then Isaiah said to HEZEKIAH, "Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:

6. 'Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,' says The LORD.

7. 'They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon's palace.'"