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“Look, I am causing the shadow that is on the steps of Ahaz[a] to move back ten steps. The sun’s shadow will go back up the ten steps that it has already been on.”

Hezekiah’s Song

This is the letter from Hezekiah when he became well:

10 I thought I would live a full life.
    But now, in the middle of my life, the time has come for me to die.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 38:8 steps of Ahaz The steps of a special building that Hezekiah used like a clock. When the sun shone on the steps, the shadows showed what time of the day it was.

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