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Isaiah 38:21

Isaiah

19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

22 And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Now Isaiah had said, “Prepare a lump of pressed figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”
KJV
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
WEB
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
ASV
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
Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
BLB
And Isaiah said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply [it] upon the boil, that he may live.”
ÅB
Jesaja sa at de skulle hente en fikenkake og legge den som plaster på bylden, så han kunne bli frisk igjen.
OTB
Jesaja hadde instruert, “Forbered en fikenpasta og legg den på byllen, og han vil bli frisk.”
B1930
Esaias sa at de skulde hente en fikenkake og legge den som plaster på bylden, så han kunde bli frisk igjen.

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Cross references

  • 2 Kings 20:7–8

    Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” So they brought it and applied it to the boil, and Hezekiah recovered.

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  • John 9:6

    When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

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  • Mark 7:33

    So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

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