Isaiah 38:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; I will be a shield to this city.(A)
7 This will be the sign for you from the Lord that the Lord will carry out the word he has spoken: 8 See, I will make the shadow cast by the sun on the stairway to the terrace of Ahaz[a] go back the ten steps it has advanced. So the sun came back the ten steps it had advanced.(B)
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- 38:8 Stairway to the terrace of Ahaz: this interpretation is based on a reading of the Hebrew text revised according to the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah; cf. 2 Kgs 23:12. Many translate the phrase as “steps of Ahaz” and understand this as referring to a sundial.
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