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

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