8
behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.
9
THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.
10
I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.
11
I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.
12
has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down : my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off thread.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.