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Isaiah 38:21

Isaiah 38:21 is verse 21 of Isaiah chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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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.

World English Bible

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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Isaiah 38:19–22 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

21 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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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Kings 20:7

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

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.

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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