Isaiah 38:21

And Isaiah says, “Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he lives.”

Literal Standard Version

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

20Like myself today; A father makes known to [his] sons of Your faithfulness, || O YHWH—to save me: And we sing my songs all [the] days of our lives || In the house of YHWH.”

22And Hezekiah says, “What [is] the sign that I go up to the house of YHWH?”

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Cross References

Mark 7:33And having taken him away from the multitude by Himself, 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 →

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