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Now I will add fifteen years to your life. <span id="v29038006" class="ver">6</span>I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will be a shield to this city.<a id="ren29038006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29038006-c">c</a></p> <p><span id="v29038007" class="ver">7</span>This will be the sign for you from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will carry out the word he has spoken: <span id="v29038008" class="ver">8</span>See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz<a id="rfn29038008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038008-1">*</a> go back the ten steps it has advanced. So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.<a id="ren29038008-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29038008-d">d</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Hezekiah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving.</span> <span id="v29038009" class="ver">9</span>The song of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29038010" class="ver">10</span>In the noontime of life<a id="rfn29038010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038010-1">*</a> I said,</p> <p class="sl1">I must depart!</p> <p class="sl">To the gates of Sheol I have been consigned</p> <p class="sl1">for the rest of my years.<a id="ren29038010-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29038010-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038011" class="ver">11</span>I said, I shall see the <span class="tetr">Lord</span><a id="rfn29038011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038011-1">*</a> no more</p> <p class="sl1">in the land of the living.</p> <p class="sl">Nor look on any mortals</p> <p class="sl1">among those who dwell in the world.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038012" class="ver">12</span>My dwelling, like a shepherd’s tent,</p> <p class="sl1">is struck down and borne away from me;</p> <p class="sl">You have folded up my life, like a weaver</p> <p class="sl1">who severs me from the last thread.<a id="rfn29038012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038012-1">*</a> <a id="ren29038012-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29038012-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl">From morning to night you make an end of me;</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29038013" class="ver">13</span>I cry out even until the dawn.</p> <p class="sl">Like a lion he breaks all my bones;</p> <p class="sl1">from morning to night you make an end of me.<a id="ren29038013-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29038013-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038014" class="ver">14</span>Like a swallow I chirp;</p> <p class="sl1">I moan like a dove.</p> <p class="sl">My eyes grow weary looking heavenward:</p> <p class="sl1">Lord, I am overwhelmed; go security for me!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038015" class="ver">15</span><a id="rfn29038015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038015-1">*</a> What am I to say or tell him?</p> <p class="sl1">He is the one who has done it!</p> <p class="sl">All my sleep has fled,</p> <p class="sl1">because of the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038016" class="ver">16</span>Those live whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> protects;</p> <p class="sl1">yours is the life of my spirit.</p> <p class="sl">You have given me health and restored my life!</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29038017" class="ver">17</span>Peace in place of bitterness!</p> <p class="sl">You have preserved my life</p> <p class="sl1">from the pit of destruction;</p> <p class="sl">Behind your back</p> <p class="sl1">you cast all my sins.<a id="rfn29038017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038017-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038018" class="ver">18</span><a id="rfn29038018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038018-1">*</a> For it is not Sheol that gives you thanks,</p> <p class="sl1">nor death that praises you;</p> <p class="sl">Neither do those who go down into the pit</p> <p class="sl1">await your kindness.<a id="ren29038018-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29038018-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038019" class="ver">19</span>The living, the living give you thanks,</p> <p class="sl1">as I do today.</p> <p class="sl">Parents declare to their children,</p> <p class="sl1">O God, your faithfulness.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29038020" class="ver">20</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> is there to save us.</p> <p class="sl1">We shall play our music</p> <p class="sl">In the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span></p> <p class="sl1l">all the days of our life.</p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v29038021" class="ver">21</span><a id="rfn29038021-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29038021-1">*</a> Then Isaiah said, “Bring a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil for his recovery.” <span id="v29038022" class="ver">22</span>Hezekiah asked, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>?”</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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