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19 God is not a man, that he might lie,
or a son of man, that he might change his mind.(A)
Does he speak and not act,
or promise and not fulfil?(B)

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19 (A)God is not man, that he should lie,
    or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
    Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

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19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

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This is the sign to you(A) from the Lord that he will do what he has promised:

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“This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:

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And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken;

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I 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 38:8 Lit And the sun

(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]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

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