8 “Behold, I will bring the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down with the sun on the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.” So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial by which it had gone down.
9 This is the writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
10 I said,“In the prime of my lifeI shall go to the gates of Sheol;I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”
11 I said,“I shall not see Yah,The Lord in the land of the living;I shall observe man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
12 My life span is gone,Taken from me like a shepherd’s tent;I have cut off my life like a weaver.He cuts me off from the loom;From day until night You make an end of me.
13 I have considered until morning—Like a lion,So He breaks all my bones;From day until night You make an end of me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered;I mourned like a dove;My eyes fail from looking upward.O Lord, I am oppressed;Undertake for me!