I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.(A)

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

10 I said, “In the prime of my life(B)
    must I go through the gates of death(C)
    and be robbed of the rest of my years?(D)
11 I said, “I will not again see the Lord himself(E)
    in the land of the living;(F)
no longer will I look on my fellow man,
    or be with those who now dwell in this world.

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