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Isaiah 38:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Isaiah 38:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the stairway of Ahaz to turn back ten steps.” And the sun then retreated the ten steps it had previously advanced.
Hezekiah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving.[a] 9 A canticle written by King Hezekiah of Judah after his recovery from his illness:
10 Once I said,
“In the noontime of my life
I must depart.
I will be consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:9 This prayer, which is lacking in 2 Kings, seems to be post-Exilic.