Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 38:21 in context
Isaiah 38:18–22
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For Sheol can’t praise you.
Death can’t celebrate you.
Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
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The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.
The father shall make known your truth to the children.
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The LORD will save me.
Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD’s house.
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Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
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Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the LORD’s house?”
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