how I have walked before thee with a perfect heart,
and in integrity have ever pleased Thee.'
Isaiah the prophet was going away,
but God caused him to return, thus saying to him again,
' Return to Hezekiah, and say to him these words,
The Lord God hath said, in whom David believed,
I have heard thy prayer, and I have beheld thy weeping,
and behold, I will heal thee that thou mayest go whole
now within about three days, to thy Lord's temple;
and I will allow thee a space of fifteen years
in addition to thy days, and I will also protect this city!'
Then the prophet Isaiah bade make a plaster
for the king's wound, and health came to him.
Then he lived afterward until the sixteenth year,
and with all goodness pleased God.
Hezekiah's son was called Manasses,
and he succeeded to the kingdom after his father's death,
and with many evil deeds provoked the Almighty God.
Then God sent him a severe chastisement,
so that the Chaldean people came to him,
and brought him bound to the city of Babylon,
and thrust him into prison, as a shame to his kingship.
Then Manasses greatly repented of his sins,
and with all his heart cried to the Almighty,
imploring mercy for all his wicked deeds,
and promised amendment, and he also performed it.
Lo then! the Almighty God heard the prayer
of the poor king, and brought him
again to his kingdom, out of the cruel prison,
and he afterward restored that which he had before broken in pieces.
He then acknowledged God's might, and his mercy towards him,
and turned his deeds to his Lord's will,
