Isaiah 38:21

Now Isaias had ordered that they should take a lump of figs, and lay it as a plaster upon the wound, and that he should be healed.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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

20O Lord, save me, and we will sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

22And Ezechias had said: What shall be the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

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Cross References

Mark 7:33And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, 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 →

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