(A)Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.[a]

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

10 I said, (B)In the middle[b] of my days
    I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
    for the rest of my years.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain
  2. Isaiah 38:10 Or In the quiet

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