8. I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.
9. When King Hezekiah was well again, he wrote this poem:
10. I said, “In the prime of my life,must I now enter the place of the dead?Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”
11. I said, “Never again will I see the lord godwhile still in the land of the living.Never again will I see my friendsor be with those who live in this world.
12. My life has been blown awaylike a shepherd’s tent in a storm.It has been cut short,as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom.Suddenly, my life was over.