Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

In Context

20Jehovah was [purposed] to save me. And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.

22And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah?

Read all of Isaiah 38

Cross References

Mark 7:33And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 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. 11 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. 12 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… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Isaiah 38:21