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behold, I will cause the shadow of the dial, which is gone down on the sun-dial of Ahaz, to return backward ten degrees.' So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
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The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.
10
I said: In the noontide of my days I shall go, even to the gates of the nether-world; I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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I said: I shall not see HaShem, even HaShem in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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My habitation is plucked up and carried away from me as a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up like a weaver my life; He will cut me off from the thrum; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.
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The more I make myself like unto a lion until morning, the more it breaketh all my bones; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.
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Like a swallow or a crane, so do I chatter, I do moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward. O HaShem, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.
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What shall I say? He hath both spoken unto me, and Himself hath done it; I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
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O L-rd, by these things men live, and altogether therein is the life of my spirit; wherefore recover Thou me, and make me to live.
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Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness; but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.
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For the nether-world cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.
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The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known Thy truth.
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HaShem is ready to save me; therefore we will sing songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of HaShem.
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And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'
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And Hezekiah said. 'What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of HaShem?'
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