Isaiah 38

King Hezekiah becomes mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah tells him to prepare for death. Hezekiah weeps bitterly and prays to God. God immediately sends Isaiah back with a message: God has heard his prayer and will add fifteen years to his life. As a miraculous sign, God causes the shadow on the sundial to move backward ten steps. Hezekiah then sings a psalm of praise and thanksgiving, celebrating his deliverance from the grave and affirming that the living can praise God, but the dead cannot.