7. ‘ “This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:
8. 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.
9. A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
10. I said, ‘In the prime of my lifemust I go through the gates of deathand be robbed of the rest of my years?’
11. I said, ‘I will not again see the Lord himselfin the land of the living;no longer will I look on my fellow man,or be with those who now dwell in this world.