Holy Scripture

Isaiah 38:9

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 9) The Scripture of King Hezekiah of Judah when he became ill and recovered from his illness. LXX. The Prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and rose from his sickness. I wonder why only the Seventy have included this prayer in the scripture, since the prayer is called Thephellath (), not Machthar (…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

9The prayer of Hezekiah king of Judea, when he had been sick, and was recovered from his sickness.

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7And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this thing;

8behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees of the dial by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.

— Isaiah 38:9 —

10I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.

11I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.

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