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"Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.

"The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.

Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me.