Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah. In 2 Kings 20:4 the quickness of God's answer to the prayer is marked: "afore Isaiah had gone out into the middle court the word of the Lord came to him" - i:e., before he had left Hezekiah, or at least when he had just left him, and Hezekiah was in the act of praying, after having heard God's message by Isaiah (cf. Isaiah 65:24; Psalms 32:5; Daniel 9:21).