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Isaiah 38:21

Isaiah

19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

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

22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall 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

    And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

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  • John 9:6

    When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

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  • Mark 7:33

    And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

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