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The sun has made a shadow go down the stairway of Ahaz, but I will make it go back ten steps.’” So the shadow made by the sun went back up the ten steps it had gone down.

After Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this ·song [or poem; L writing]:

10 I said, “I am in the ·middle [prime] of my life.
    Do I have to go through the gates of ·death [or the grave; L Sheol]?
    Will I have the rest of my life ·taken away [deprived; robbed] from me?”

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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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