29 “This will be the sign(A) for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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29 “This will be the sign(A) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,(B)
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
    plant vineyards(C) and eat their fruit.

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30 “‘This will be the sign for you:(A) This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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30 “This will be the sign(A) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year(B) you will eat what grows by itself,
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year(C) sow and reap,
    plant vineyards(D) and eat their fruit.(E)

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This is the sign to you(A) from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on the stairway of Ahaz go back by ten steps.’”(B) So the sun’s shadow[a] went back the ten steps it had descended.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Lit And the sun

“‘This is the Lord’s sign(A) to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.(B)

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13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;(A)
this will stand as a monument for the Lord,(B)
an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.

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13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
    and instead of briers(A) the myrtle(B) will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,(C)
    for an everlasting sign,
    that will endure forever.”

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