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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29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

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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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30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

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

Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

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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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13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

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