First Reading
Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
1In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and Isaias the son of Amos the prophet came to him, and said to him: Thus says the Lord: Take order with your house, for you shall die, and not live.
2And Ezechias turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the Lord,
3And said: I beg you, OH Lord, remember how I have walked before you in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.
4And the word of the Lord came to Isaias, saying:
5Go and say to Ezechias: Thus says the Lord the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears: look I will add to your days fifteen years:
6And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.
21Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as it plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.
22And Ezechias bed said: What shah be the sign that I shah go up to the house of the Lord?
7And this shall be a sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word which he has said:
8Look I will bring again the shadow of the lines, by which it is now gone down in the sun dial of Achaz with the sun, ten lines backward. And the sun returned ten lines by the degrees by which it was gone down.