Isaiah 38:8-10

Christian Standard Bible

⁸I 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.

⁹A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

¹⁰I 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

38:8 Lit And the sun
38:10 Lit quiet

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