I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on the stairway of Ahaz go back by ten steps.’”(A) So the sun’s shadow[a] went back the ten steps it had descended.

A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

10 I said: In the prime[b] of my life(B)
I must go to the gates of Sheol;(C)
I am deprived of the rest of my years.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Lit And the sun
  2. 38:10 Lit quiet

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.(A)

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

10 I said, “In the prime of my life(B)
    must I go through the gates of death(C)
    and be robbed of the rest of my years?(D)

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