Isaias

7 And this is the sign to thee from the Lord, that God will accomplish this word.

8 Behold, I turn the shadow of the steps, down which the sun has gone, the ten steps of the house of thy father; I will turn the sun back the ten steps. And the sun went up (again) the ten- steps, down which the shadow had gone. ’

9 [A song.] Prayer of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had fallen sick, and arisen from his Sickness.

10 I said, At the height of my days, in the gates of hell I shall leave the residue of my years.

11 Ι said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land, I shall no more see man.

12 From among my kindred; I have left behind the residue of my-life; it is gone forth and departed from me, like him that looseth. his tent which he hath pitched; my spirit in me became as a web, when she that weaveth draweth near to cut it off.

13 In that day was I given over until morning, as to a lion ; so hath he crushed all my bones; for from the day until night was I given over.

14 As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a clove, so will I rehearse it; for mine eyes have failed from looking up to the height of heaven to the Lord, who rescued me, and took away the anguish of my soul.