Isaiah 38:8-10

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⁸The 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.

⁹After Hezekiah king of Judah got well, he wrote this ·song [or poem; ^Lwriting]:

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