Isaiah 38:21

וַיֹּאמֶר יְשַׁעְיָהוּ יִשְׂאוּ דְּבֶלֶת תְּאֵנִים וְיִמְרְחוּ עַֽל ־ הַשְּׁחִין וְיֶֽחִי ׃

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

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

20יְהוָה לְהוֹשִׁיעֵנִי וּנְגִנוֹתַי נְנַגֵּן כָּל ־ יְמֵי חַיֵּינוּ עַל ־ בֵּית יְהוָֽה ׃

22וַיֹּאמֶר חִזְקִיָּהוּ מָה אוֹת כִּי אֶעֱלֶה בֵּית יְהוָֽה ׃ ס

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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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