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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 38, Verse 7

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And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
King James Version
And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
American Standard Version
And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken:
New English Translation
Isaiah replied,“This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said:
World English Bible
This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
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Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. 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:
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I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
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I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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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 in the bitterness of my soul.
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O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
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Behold, for 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.