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Isaiah 38:8-10
International Standard Version
Isaiah 38:8-10
International Standard Version
8 Watch! I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper[a] dial of Ahaz that marks the sun go ten steps backwards.”’”
Then the sunlight turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had gone down.
Hezekiah’s Prayer
9 A composition by King Hezekiah of Judah, following his illness and recovery:
10 I said, “Must I leave in the prime of my life?
Must I be consigned to the control[b] of Sheol?[c]
Bitter are[d] my years!”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:8 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks upper
- Isaiah 38:10 Lit. gates; i.e. the place where legal cases were adjudicated
- Isaiah 38:10 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
- Isaiah 38:10 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the rest of
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