“‘ “Here is a sign from me. It will show you that I will heal you, just as I promised I would.

“我耶和华必成就我所说的。我先给你一个兆头，

“耶和华必成就他所说的这话。这是耶和华给你的预兆：

“耶和华必成就他所说的这话。这是耶和华给你的预兆：

以赛亚说：“耶和华要给你一个预兆，以证明祂言出必行。

以下就是耶和华给你的兆头，为要证明耶和华必成全他所说过的。

以下是我耶和华给你的征兆来证明我耶和华必成就所说的这事：

「我－耶和華必成就我所說的。我先給你一個兆頭，

「耶和華必成就他所說的這話。這是耶和華給你的預兆：

「耶和華必成就他所說的這話。這是耶和華給你的預兆：

以賽亞說：「耶和華要給你一個預兆，以證明祂言出必行。

以下就是耶和華給你的兆頭，為要證明耶和華必成全他所說過的。

『永恆主必成就他所說過的這件事：他所要給你的兆頭是這樣：

以下是我耶和華給你的徵兆來證明我耶和華必成就所說的這事：

耶和華必成所言、有其徵焉、

我耶和華所言有應、必示爾以徵、

主必驗所言、有一事可以為徵、

“‘ This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:

“ This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:

“‘ And this is the sign from the Lord to prove that he will do as he promised:

This is the sign to you from the LORD that he will do what he has promised:

“ And this shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will perform this word that He has spoken:

And this is the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing which He has spoken:

And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:

This is the sign to you from the Lord that He will do what He has promised:

And this[ shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

Isaiah replied,“ This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said:

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

Please do something for me. I’ll put a piece of wool on the threshing floor. Suppose dew is only on the wool tomorrow morning. And suppose the ground all around it is dry. Then I will know that you will use me to save Israel. I’ll know that your promise will come true.”And that’s what happened. Gideon got up early the next day. He squeezed the dew out of the wool. The water filled a bowl.Then Gideon said to God,“ Don’t be angry with me. Let me ask you for just one more thing. Let me use the wool for one more test. But this time make the wool dry. And let the ground be covered with dew.”

The Lord said,“ Hezekiah, here is a sign for you.“ This year you will eat what grows by itself. Next year you will eat what grows from that. But in the third year you will plant your crops and gather them in. You will plant your grapevines and eat their fruit.

I have put my rainbow in the clouds. It will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

Gideon replied,“ If you are pleased with me, give me a special sign. Then I’ll know that it’s really you talking to me.Please don’t go away until I come back. I’ll bring my offering and set it down in front of you.” The Lord said,“ I will wait until you return.”Gideon went inside and prepared a young goat. From 36 pounds of flour he made bread without using yeast. He put the meat in a basket. In a pot he put soup made from the meat. Then he brought all of it and offered it to the Lord under the oak tree.The angel of God said to Gideon,“ Take the meat and the bread. Place them on this rock. Then pour out the soup.” So Gideon did it.The angel of the Lord had a walking stick in his hand. With the tip of the stick he touched the meat and the bread. Fire blazed out of the rock. It burned up the meat and the bread. Then the angel of the Lord disappeared.Gideon realized it was the angel of the Lord. He cried out,“ Oh no, my Lord and King, I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”

Hezekiah had said to Isaiah,“ You say the Lord will heal me. You say that I’ll go up to his temple on the third day from now. What will the sign be to prove he’ll really do that?”Isaiah answered,“ The Lord will do what he has promised. Here is his sign to you. Do you want the shadow the sun makes to go forward ten steps? Or do you want it to go back ten steps?”“ It’s easy for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah.“ So have it go back ten steps.”Then Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord. And the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps. It went back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway Ahaz had made.At that time Marduk- Baladan, the king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah letters and a gift. He had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. Marduk- Baladan was the son of Baladan.Hezekiah received the messengers. He showed them everything in his storerooms. He showed them the silver and gold. He showed them the spices and the fine olive oil. He showed them where he kept his weapons. And he showed them all his treasures. In fact, he showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah. He asked him,“ What did those men say? Where did they come from?”“ They came from a land far away,” Hezekiah said.“ They came from Babylon.”The prophet asked,“ What did they see in your palace?”“ They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said.“ I showed them all my treasures.”Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“ Listen to the Lord’ s message. He says,‘ You can be sure the time will come when everything in your palace will be carried off to Babylon. Everything the kings before you have stored up until this day will be taken away. There will not be anything left,’ says the Lord.‘ Some of the members of your family line will be taken away. They will be your own flesh and blood. They will include the children who will be born into your family line in years to come. And they will serve the king of Babylon in his palace.’ ”“ The message the Lord has spoken through you is good,” Hezekiah replied. He thought,“ There will be peace and safety while I’m still living.”The other events of the rule of Hezekiah are written down. That includes how he made the pool and the tunnel. He used them to bring water into Jerusalem. Everything he accomplished is written in the official records of the kings of Judah.Hezekiah joined the members of his family who had already died. Hezekiah’s son Manasseh became the next king after him.

“ I am the Lord your God. Ask me to give you a sign. It can be anything in the deepest grave or in the highest heaven.”But Ahaz said,“ I won’t ask. I won’t test the Lord.”Then Isaiah said,“ Listen, you members of the royal family of David! Isn’t it enough for you to test the patience of human beings? Are you also going to test the patience of my God?The Lord himself will give you a sign. The virgin is going to have a baby. She will give birth to a son. And he will be called Immanuel.

At that time Hezekiah had asked,“ What will the sign be to prove I’ll go up to the Lord’ s temple?” That’s when the Lord had made the shadow go back ten steps.