Verse 8
Isaiah 38:8
Literal Standard Version
8
Behold, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it has gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, by the sun, backward ten degrees”; and the sun turns back ten degrees in the degrees that it had gone down.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנְ/נִ֣י מֵשִׁ֣יב אֶת צֵ֣ל הַֽ/מַּעֲל֡וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָרְדָה֩ בְ/מַעֲל֨וֹת אָחָ֥ז בַּ/שֶּׁ֛מֶשׁ אֲחֹרַנִּ֖ית עֶ֣שֶׂר מַעֲל֑וֹת וַ/תָּ֤שָׁב הַ/שֶּׁ֨מֶשׁ֙ עֶ֣שֶׂר מַעֲל֔וֹת בַּֽ/מַּעֲל֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָרָֽדָה
English Translation
Behold, I will restore the shadow of the steps that had descended on the steps of Ahaz back ten steps; and the sun returned ten steps on the steps that it had descended.
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Chapter 38 Context
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In those days has Hezekiah been sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, comes to him and...
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And Hezekiah turns around his face to the wall, and prays to YHWH,
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and says, “Ah, now, O YHWH, please remember how I have habitually walked before You in truth, and wi...
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And a word of YHWH is to Isaiah, saying,
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“Go, and you have said to Hezekiah, Thus said YHWH, God (Elohim) of your father David: I have heard...
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and out of the hand of the king of Asshur I deliver you and this city, and have covered over this ci...
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And this is to you the sign from YHWH, that YHWH does this thing that He has spoken.
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Behold, I am bringing back the shadow of the degrees that it has gone down on the degrees of Ahaz, b...
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A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah concerning his being sick when he revives from his sickness:
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“I said in the cutting off of my days, || I go to the gates of Sheol, || I have numbered the remnant...
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I said, I do not see YAH—YAH! In the land of the living, || I do not behold man anymore, || With the...
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My sojourning has departed, || And been removed from me as a shepherd’s tent, || I have drawn togeth...
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I have set Him as a lion until morning, || So He breaks all my bones, || From day to night You end m...
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As a crane—a swallow—so I chatter, || I mourn as a dove, || My eyes have been drawn up on high, || O...
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What do I say? Seeing He spoke to me, || And He Himself has worked, || I go softly all my years for...
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Lord, men live by these, || And by all in them is the life of my spirit, || And You save me, make me...
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Behold, He changed bitterness to peace for me, || And You have delighted in my soul without corrupti...
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For Sheol does not confess You, || Death does not praise You, || Those going down to the pit do not...
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The living, the living, he confesses You,
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Like myself today; A father makes known to his sons of Your faithfulness, || O YHWH—to save me: And...
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And Isaiah says, “Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he lives.”
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And Hezekiah says, “What is the sign that I go up to the house of YHWH?”
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