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Watch! I will make the shadow of the setting sun that has moved down the stairway of Ahaz move back, ten steps higher on the staircase.

Then the sun’s shadow moved backwards, ten steps higher on the stairway that it had just descended.

A poem written by Hezekiah king of Judah, after his illness and recovery.[a]

10 I thought that, only halfway through my life,
I was entering into the gates of death,[b]
deprived of the remaining years of my life.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:9 This poem is not included in 2 Kings.
  2. Isaiah 38:10 Hebrew sheol